Whereas I am well aware that many people really like life to be "exciting" and filled with action and activity, I am not among those people!
As I look back across the years, I have a fairly deep appreciation for the fact that I was often regarded as "the boring one" in my group of friends. There might have been a time when the idea offended me slightly... but that was a long time ago.
I like my peace and quiet, and I always have. Even back during my University days, I was the one people always called to come and bail them out of the local drunk tank at the police station. I was the one they called because they knew they could rely on me to be sober, and to help a friend in need.
I don't like drama, and I don't like turbulence in my way.
I also don't much care for the world as it is unfolding at the moment. Whereas I realize very well that I can't do a thing about it because it's out of my control, the state of the world makes me feel anxious quite often.
And it's not that I'm scared of change, or scared of turbulence. It's just that it makes me feel unsettled and rattled and perpetually slightly anxious, to a degree that being alive simply doesn't feel very good.
One of my prayers for February was that some of all the turbulence of the world would settle down... whether it comes to the price of crypto and the stock market or just to politicians making stupid decisions that are causing people to die for no good reason.
But hey, it could also be that I am just getting old. But I don't think so, since this feeling has been with me almost all my life.
I have lived with considerable anxiety ever since I was a kid. Even when I was 10 years old I was a perpetual worrier, always wondering what was going to happen next to upset my personal apple cart.
Of course, I am well aware that "peace and stability" are historically rare events in the human condition. So why would I get to have them, even if I really want them?
Something seems to have changed in the world. It's like there is a growing backdrop of rage and violence, even in everyday situations. Have we all just finally been stretched too thin by a system that seems to keep taking, while giving back very little?
Our local "NextDoor" app keeps sending messages through about Border Patrol and ICE sightings in the area... and this in a town that has very few immigrants. People are on edge...
Much like a bear, I just want to curl up and hibernate until it's all over.
Wishful thinking, I know...
I guess I will just keep hoping for more peaceful times ahead... for what else can we do?
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