Today's Thoughts

Hi Blogworld.

Thanksgiving day - I'm thankful for every day.  I'm glad I have a job and a place to live.
I feel alone in the world sometimes, but I know that's partly an attitude problem and my lack of energy toward maintaining relationships.
I'm nearing the end of our implementation project at work  I've been physically inactive during much of the last few months.
I'm happy and yet, I know I'm not living my best life - I don't eat right and I don't get outside enough and I don't create relationships with other people.
That's it on the personal front.

The world is scary right now.  I feel like we live in the Old West where 'bad' people get what they want just by being aggressive and willing to kill.
When I grew up I was taught that life is valuable.
It doesn't appear that idea was as firmly entrenched all over the world as I thought.

I think if we could treat everyone as if they matter in this world; that their life matters to the universe and to all of this community of humans, that would go a long way toward ending the problems we're seeing today.

People kill others so easily.  Gangs, criminals, governments, religious groups.
If we don't treat people like their life matters, then it's no wonder they don't think much of killing other people.
As a government we have disregarded the value of individual lives in other countries for centuries.
We haven't cared if it meant better resources or money for us.  American corporations have been dismissive of cultures around the world if it made a quick buck.
We don't even care about the existence of humanity if you take the way we treat our planet as evidence.

On a less dismal front:
I'm watching Treksgiving on BBC America - a marathon of Star Trek The Next Generation episodes.  I remember back in 1987 when the series started.  I was excited and embarrassed about my excitement and trying to hide it from ET, who I lived with at the time.  Or, did I tell him?  I'm not sure I told him how much I liked the idea of Star Trek.  I remember putting it on my VCR and watching it later, I don't recall that he liked it particularly.  He worked in retail at night so maybe he wasn't home when I watched it.
So, that was nearly 30 years ago.
I just watched a Tasha Yar episode where she was supposed to be a badass.  Compared to today's badass chicks - it's quite a bit different.  Times have changed.
I remember thinking the fact that there was a female security chief was cool, but really obvious as well - they were trying to make a point.
I guess awkward declarations are necessary to make progress.
(But what progress have we really made when we still haven't had a female president?)

I'll go to Mom's house this afternoon and then home before dark.

That's it.

Happy Thanksgiving.