And that's very nicely put. I often feel as others have said. I see the news headlines, all the atrocities, the epidemics, the killings, wars and heartbreak. But I think too that maybe it's something that comes with experience of life? When we were much much younger and didn't know better, we felt we
could change the world, make it better, accomplish great things, that with the right will, these awful headlines would be a thing of the past. Over the years we learn that the world is too big, the global problems on too great a scale for individuals to grasp, so as our responsibilities in our own lives grow, we start taking care of those. I think too that one of the problems these days is the constant, immediate newsfeed. We are jaded by it all. It becomes meaningless. Even in the 1980s, news of the famine in Africa
was news because it had crept up without us all having updates on it every ten seconds! We are desensitised by information overload. And we feel helpless and numbed, because we can do nothing to change the world problems, to make the world better. And as carers, deep down, we think it's our job to make things alright.
But you see, we
have changed the world for the ones we care for. We
have made the world better for our loved ones and families. We
have accomplished great things indeed - in the lives of the ones we love and care for.
So, yes, we do need our comfort blankets! I spent a happy evening watching Chicken Run! Happy escapism!
(pardon the pun!)