Frenzy of Irrationality...

Folk #1: Ok. Maybe I'm seeing everything in the wrong way? Trying times. Difficult times. Extraordinary times. The current situation of our collective situation, sort of challenges everything I think & believe. Every day, I seem to notice that I am deeply out of sync with they ways of the world. I am disappointed in my Country, in the Government, in the broader Culture. I am not really down with the drift of my fellow Human Beings. There seems to be a frenzy of irrationality alive in the world. Is it crazy to think that most of us have lost of our fucking minds? And still, we go on, furiously consuming everything in our paths. I get up early the morning, peruse the passing scene, sip my coffee, and I wonder to myself: "What to Believe?" So, yeah, maybe being confronted with trying, difficult, extraordinary times is useful? Maybe the trick is to use the challenge as a tool? I believe in believing in something. I have concluded it is important for me, personally, to find meaning & purpose in my day to day. I am making it up as I go along. The basics: I believe in a Better Day. I believe in Humilty, The Good. I believe in Reality & Truth. I believe our lives are long-form improvisations. I believe that we Human Beings are fallible, arbitrary, complicated, contradictory & temporary. I believe in Work. I believe in applying myself to the tasks at hand, and doing the best I can, with what I have. Lately, I find myself being pushed into a Radical Empathy. All the madness, cruelty, & suffering that Humans are inflicting upon each other seems intolerable. I am aligned with Nature, with Love, with Responsibility. It looks like my conception of the world is melting before my eyes. I suppose it's an opportunity to sculpt out, to conjure up, my own very personal vision of Clarity. I am not down with this shite. Still, I carry on.