Being Positive in a Negative Time

Not easy. Not easy at all. So much negativity. So much power to do ill. How do we keep positive in such a climate? No; not easily done at all.

I used to have major trouble breathing. Hay fever and asthma shut down much of my breathing apparatus; pills and shots maintained the airways and here I am, surviving still! Along the way new pills, breathing mists helped. Then a machine that forces air into the lungs. And finally oxygen was added to the other machine and breathing is easy and ample.

It is a marvel to lie in bed and breathe normally. I awaken now able to arise and live a normal life. Breathing in daytime is much better than it once was, and now I hardly think of it. When I do, I recognize it as a miracle of our time and technology. I glow with a positive attitude then. Who wouldn’t?

The little things in life to most; huge factor in the life of others. 

For those who have much to eat, hunger is not a part of their lives. Others are starving, though; and even as we create agencies to care for them, those who starve do not know where their next meal will come from or when. That little fact is small to us who eat regularly, but not so for the starving. Let us remember this.

And housing; and clothing; and transportation; and heat or air conditioning when needed; and rest, sleep, realization. All small things to us who have it; not so for the others.

Remember all of that, too. The yin and yang of life is such that positive and negative are brothers and sisters. Remember that as well.

Where there is negative there is also positive; and vice versa. They are wedded. Not separate.

When negative is there, turn the head and look around; the tools and supplies of positive are there – right there – to be used to assuage the opposite. Not far to see or reach.

Best we use it to help those who need help. Right now. Not tomorrow or next week; now.

What can I do in this? What can you do in this?

Stand up and help, of course. Right now.

August 11, 2017