Good bad, black white, up down, day night, positive and negative. All these opposites are pairs, one has no identity without the other.

WHY THEN  are we taught and preached at to be positive, avoid the negative, stay away from negative people, only think positive thoughts.   Why  do we keep these two opposites so far apart??

By doing this dont you think we are creating an imbalance of sorts? 

Dont forget we dream in darkness.

Waterkat

After reading the following verses from Job ch:30,  I have come to the conclusion that he suffered chronically with depression.  I know I may be stating the obvious but I beleive that there are depression sufferers out there who could really relate to the deep feelings of pain and grief that he describes so intensely here:

I am sick at heart! Pain has taken its toll. Night chews at my bones, causing endless torment and God has shrunk my skin, choking me to death.  I have been thrown in the dirt and now am dirt myself. I beg God for help, but there is no answer; and when I stand up, he simply stares. God has turned brutal, stirring up a storm to toss me about.  Soon He will send me home to the world of the dead, where we all must go.

No one refuses help to others when disaster strikes.  I mourned for the poor and those who suffered.  But when I beg for relief and light, all I receive is disaster and darkness.  My stomach is tied in knots; pain is my daily companion.  Suffering has scorched my skin, and in the city I stand and cry out, making mournful sounds like jackals and owls.  My skin is so parched, that it peels right off, and my bones are burning.  My only songs are sorrow and sadness.   JOB 30: v16-31

*If you read through to the end of Job you find that only in his complete surrender, acceptance of his life situation and humility to God was he then healed and blessed with good fortune.  Now Ive decided to try this for myself and see what happens.

But its any wonder God ignored him.. boy could he whinge and whine! 

I have to get up and walk. Just like Forest Gump I have to get up and go without no particular reason and start moving, walking and breathing. 

But really there is a reason.  Day in day out, night after night, that screen has sucked me in. Into its vaccuum, everything flying at high speed and all becoming one mass. It hurts the head. Its pounding, so much that I WANT to explode.  I am so literally sick to death of it.  So I must walk, tear myself away from the master.

The light bulb moment came to me when through my window yesterday evening came a warm sweet breeze  full of memory aroma.  I knew what it was going to smell and feel like if I breathed in deep, so I tried to keep on breathing like I normally do -shallow.  But then I dared to do it, I wanted to feel it again, just once again, so I inhaled long and deep and held it for just a couple of seconds,,thats when I  felt the alive feeling that I have feared for so long and suddenly a well of tears rose up through me and I began to cry.   I was not sad at the time, and was not thinking of anything when I breathed,, but from out of my secret place came a river. 

So I've concluded - Yes I have really lost touch with reality,,,so Im going to walk,,,it's calling me.

Waterkat

This is the time when we need to be more fully aware on what life is showing us.  We as a race have evolved into what we know as humans today, but just imagine what others would think of us if we could go back into another time and place in the past.  If we went back far enough, I doubt if we would even be thought of as human.  Here are just two examples out of many:

We have lost our natural ability to function the way we were designed to with just nature as our precious source. 

We have lost our instinctive ability to sense and respond to the feelings of others and even our own. 

What kind of race are we turning into?  Who or what will we become in the future?

What is the definition of being human?

Yes many of us are sensitive to others needs, but do we really know how to connect with our earth and with another human being at a root level?  I don’t believe so.   

And why do so many wish to “…make it on my own” or say “ I just want to lead my own life”.

Life is for sharing, feelings need to be shown and acknowledged by another, we need to connect with another’s soul.  This is what makes us human. 

This is what we have life for.  This is what feels natural to me.

*By Waterkat

'Eating alone, sleeping alone, waking alone, going to work alone, watching TV alone, doing housework alone, planning for the future alone, wondering alone, laughing alone - we all do some of these things from time to time. But when you do all these things alone, most of the time, you can’t help but stop for a moment and ask: "What the hell am I doing on my own?" '

From article 'Going Solo' by Greg Newington

A PURPOSE

Seems the only positive thing about me is my negativity,,,I am positively negative!  In fact I believe I am the best.  If there was an award for the most negative person alive, I would positively win it, I'm sure.  And I could win hands down in any challenge  for the title.

Negativity; it's me , it's mine, I am it's  headquarters.

If negativity was a good thing, I would be the most fulfilled person on the earth. Come to think of it, why are negative people so unaccepted and shunned? Is this what makes it a bad thing - people's perceptions of negativity? Doesn't it have a place somewhere in this world? No wonder I feel I don't belong.

As a matter of fact doesn't my negativity serve to make others feel better about themselves while they feel better than me?

By WaterKat