Coming together

We all individually live in deeply troublesome and turbulent times. So much goes on past our noses nowadays, that we can't even find a moment to glimpse at what has past us by.

Technology has greatly improved our lives but it moves at such a frantic pace. External information can jepordise smaller communities that have thrived and survived for generations

People have become afraid to venture outside their own front door. They are living in constant fear of being threatened or attacked. This has always gone on, but this is something different about the World we live in today.. It's like we can choose what we want to watch, when and where. There doesn't have to be a direct link to what's going on outside We can merely exercise the option of turning a PC or Television on or off at the push of a button.

Some might not agree with this, but I can't drive, and as a friend pointed out to me recently, when you live in a big city and have a car, you don't usually come into contact with anyone at night. Life operates at a much slower pace, depending upon where you live.

We are forever getting into such a rush to get from A to B, that we don't have time to take any notice of people all around us. It's a fear of behaving in a responsible manner, because we live in a very self indulgent era.

Once upon a time, people had posessed less thing's of a material nature. Community links were stronger, because you had to depend upon another. The economics of today have meant that we can't all afford to stay in the same area all our lives. Yet there is a mass migration continuing to get out of the cities or emigrate abroad. We all want a little piece of the pie, and there just isn't enough to go around.

There are so many issue's today that are making us become more globally aware. The enviroment is always in the news, and doing as much as we can to save the Planet by recycling. People always used to save what they could and put them to good use.. We have taken so much for granted, and now we're left to rediscover the old ways.

The risks and fear of global terrorism by deeply misguided beliefs, has made us all become acutely aware of hidden dangers. Fear is every much a weapon, and tries to make us feel we're isolated and alone.

When terrorists attempted to bomb Glasgow Airport in the UK, I thought they were idiots. For if these misguided indviduals had bothered to read their history about the Scottish people, and their ancient ancestors the Picts. Then they'd have learnt a valuable lesson. The Roman Army had to build a wall to keep the fierce warrior tribes from the North out. Hadrian's Wall was built to make the most powerful army on Earth feel safe.

It just goes to show you, that every nation has a strong identity of self on the a larger scale, but why is it we can't take time out for one another and those all around us.

I heard an interesting term mentioned the other day at a meeting. It was concerning Blind and Deaf people being "sensory impaired" We're all a little of that when it comes to how much information we consume and absorb. Everything that's being thrown at us today, is just sometimes too much to all take it all in. We're being bombarded with images and noise.

If we all just remember what's truly important in our lives, then we still possess the foundations to make a difference. It won't be easy, there will be heartache and pain, but we all have it within us to firmly root out an injustice. It's what we value the most, that'll make a difference.

We're all coming together in ways that we once inconcievable, but we still need one another, and to show that we still care about the things that are truly important. We're human being's, and in recognising that, how we all express our basic humanity.