I have written long passages as a comment on two o...

2008-11-04T04:56:00.000-08:00

I have written long passages as a comment on two occasions only to have my browser crash and watch the words evaporate into the electronic ether.

I looked up the English proverb I tend to base things around, ‘Expect the best, and plan for the worst.’

You‘ve been down a road few people travel and it’s a journey through a lonely place. While you’re on the voyage, it tends to give you a sense of clarity about the world and people around you, you would not ordinarily have. Our value of things increases the closer we come to losing them.

Also, you have a truer sense of how easy it is for life to come off the tracks, how fragile the world we build up around ourselves really is.

Our expectations today are wildly askew; they are based upon images force-fed to us and ones that portray a world of empty promises.

It doesn’t mean the world is a bad place, it just is a reminder maybe of how our value scale needs to be altered so we put a higher emphasis on aspects we would otherwise take for granted.

It reminds us there are actions we can take that cost us little but have a lasting effect on the world around us. Little gestures of civility, courtesy and humanity, which go quite a way in making the world, a better place.

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I have written long passages as a comment on two o...