Reading harold_maude's journal

Trying to live a simple life when things just keep happening, sometimes seems more like trying to climb a mountian with no gear, just a pair of wrong shoes and a lite jacket.
That's what life ends up being like sometimes.

It's been like that for a while. I quit getting upset and have spent much of my time trying to figure out how to live simply anyway.
I figure I can't change anyone's mind about the distructive things their doing to themselves, but I can do something about me. And I choose to try to keep it as simple as possible, inspite of feeling time getting faster. Inspite of feeling emotions that come and go, most not making any sense at all and trying to figure out where they are comming from just makes it more difficult. Things out of the blue.
Life looks and feels strange most days.

I need balance. Life works when it's in balance. It may not be easy, but it works.
I like balance. I just really like it when it's in the mix,
seems to sort things out.
But everything in the world isn't in balance. And less so now.
With each passing day, the world seems more like a top spinning out of control and trying to careen into the nearest wall.

There has been talk about putting border checks between the states. There has been mention of needing papers to cross.
History is trying to repeat itself.
But the people who are thinking about doing all this, don't see that, all they see is that they have to do this.
Did someone forget to tell them that that's how facist states start? By making life more about having the "right" paperwork,
and making sure you don't say something anti this or anti that.

Freedom, by freedome striped away while we are all busy trying to live. Too occupied with things that are designed to help everyone forget history.

Very soon now they will require a chip to be put in the I.D. of everyone born after 1963, I think that's the year they are putting as the starting point with all this madness.
Scary stuff.

It's also scary that people seem content to just let it happen.
Instead of realizing that we are headed down the same road as many other civilzations that crashed, burned and fell, and going into a mass revolt against the few that would keep us as some kind of slave or prisioner population, the masses seem content with the status quo.
There is a revolt in process, but not nearly loud enough to stop the process.

And me, well I just would like to live a simple life. And that won't be possible if all this stuff doesn't stop.
None of us will know simple after a while.
Just a state of fear. We already have that going on. Terroist this and terrorist that.
Has anyone bothered to stop and remind these folks who keep screaming this cry to the rest of us, that terrorism has been around for alot longer than any of the currant population has been alive?
It's been present in every single major advanced civilzation, just before that civilization took a header to collapse.
It's not a new thing. It's old.
It happens when a person or group of people want to control the rest of the population, to persuade by terror for political purposes.

To rule the world. That's the goal. No balance. No reason. No freedom.
And that's scary too.
But history just keeps repeating itself, and humans keep doing it to each other.

And it just keeps comming. Maybe our great, great, great grandchildren will finally figure out how to stop this cycle from happening yet once again.
Hope so. Some group of people has to finally get it.

Hmmm...seems I got lost in a rant.
That seems to happen alot lately. History repeating.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.