Life sometimes gets too complicated. Right now it looks like people are up in arms about several different things at once. We’re occupying Wall Street here in the United States (again, it seems), and overseas it seems some people (well, countless people) are upset about an issue with religious sensibilities and whether somebody made a joke or really wanted to push emotional buttons.
At least I didn’t know the person responsible for the controversial film at the center of all this, and I’m not interested in seeing it or in making people of any religion feel uncomfortable. Most of us probably feel likewise.
I normally follow the Peanuts character Linus’ philosophy not to talk about religion when I don’t know enough to say anything of value. I also don’t talk about politics, and since all I know about the Great Pumpkin is what appears in the animated special aired every Halloween, I guess I’ve struck out on all three.
Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to just take a break for five minutes and not get involved in anything. Go sip some water. Take a micro nap. Clip coupons. Just stop for five minutes and settle the torrential mind for a bit.
It’s so easy to get het up about everything. Life is tough. We don’t always behave humanely. It will never not be that way. But throwing more logs on the fire of our emotions only makes the experience more painful than it should be.
Just take five and settle down. This, too, shall pass.
And pass it on to somebody else who could also use a break from it all.
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