What is it all About?
You know sometimes when I
watch a movie it really has an
impact. I'm at one of those times
right now. I watched a movie
tonight called Mothers and
Daughters and it just got me
thinking, and of course missing
my mother too! It also got me
wondering whether or not I do in
fact want to be a mother myself,
but
heavens no! I am
not cut out to mother a child right
now at this time in my life . Then
I also realize, given my age (41),
if I want to bring a child into this
world then I need to be quick and
of course whatever happens, I
would make it work.
My goodness the brain is a
crazy thing sometimes when it
gets going! Then I got off on a
tangent thinking What is it all
about ? What are we striving for
in life? What are we here for?
What do we truly want? And what
is it all worth?
As I sit writing this, the
words freely flowing from my
brain, I realize that all I want is to
be loved and to love all the people
whose lives I touch with the work
that I do. Those, and of course my
partner, close friends and family
too. But in wanting such a simple
thing, how is it that we all get
swept up into living as Madonna's
80's hit
Living in a
Material World'?
Somehow I seem to be pulled
towards wanting to live in a nice
place in a nice area, drive a nice
car and to have a half decent
wardrobe; but why? Why does
that matter and what makes us
become so conditioned by stuff?
I'm not saying wanting those
things is wrong. I just wonder how
those things seem to appear to be
the most important things in life?
And, is that really the case?
Somehow I think we have
become standardized in our
upbringing as to what are
supposedly the right and wrong
things to have or do and what
good and bad. We get
conditioned by the news on TV,
the teachers throughout our school
lives; our parents and their friends,
even to a degree the loved ones
that enter and leave our paths. But
if we set aside those conditionings
for a moment, I ask you all, what