Thursday, March 7, 2013

Korea & The Years Which Led to Now

Nuclear weapons might come from North Korea? They might come to my country? That information from today's news makes me stop and think. First of all, I have got to turn off the television news again, for awhile, because it is just too stressing. Secondly, it makes me realize that I might as well live each day as if it were my last. That's what one of the grieving books I read told me to do. It sounds rather reasonable since I sure don't know when any body Else's time will come (or my own). I do feel less afraid about dying, but I also feel energized to go on living. I think today I will pray for all the people in Korea. I will pray for their health and happiness (both North and South Koreans). I know the leader of North Korea lost his father recently. It seems that this son's grieving is connected to our future.
From what I have learned, how one grieves directly relates to how one will go on living in the future. What does the future hold for me? I know my past very well. I know I was born in the 60's.  So many things which happened in the 70's (no less than revolutions) brought my love to me.  I read George Orwell's 1984 and that date came and went in my life. I bought my first computer in the 80's.  It connected me with the entire world, even Korea. I watched Stanley Kubrick's "2001 Space Odyssey." That date came and went in my lifetime and the new millennium began and 9/11 happened. Then 2012, the year of the dragon, took my love from me. Here we are in the year of the snake, 2013, and I'm still waiting for things to get better or things to get even worse. Somehow I know I must stop waiting. To the extent that I do not control the world (and this is to a very large extent), I have to  hope my prayers will be heard.  In the mean time, I'm going to pray.

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