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Date: May 17, 2022 10:38AM
Next year is the Year of the Rabbit.
"The rabbit is the fourth animal in the Chinese zodiac. In the Chinese culture, the rabbit is known to be the luckiest out of all the twelve animals. It symbolizes mercy, elegance, and beauty. People who are born in the year of the rabbit are calm and peaceful."
We can hope that rabbits worldwide will band together and turn the tide next year swathing the earth with a bounty of mercy, elegance, and beauty with a chaser of calm and peaceful. We could just do those things for ourselves, of course, but, like Lily Tomlin said, "Life could be beautiful . . . but it just won't."
Or, we won't? A lot of people are trying to make a difference. But what percentage are they of 8 Billion? 5% perhaps? 5% struggling to drag the other 95% out of the rip tide that is the World's eternal M.O.? The ironic cleave is that 95% are mostly busy trying to survive, find food, or, consulting a plastic surgeon for a Brazilian Butt lift.
Meanwhile people everywhere will continue to pray to Heavenly Father to fix things although they each have their own definition of what that may be. They will love their neighbor. They will turn the other cheek. But . . . when that gives the enemy the convenient opening needed for their agenda, when divine supplication worketh not, we can turn to mass consumption of material goods to comfort ourselves as we order new stuff on Amazon to impress our friends and then get on our expensive media devices to complain about gas prices and profess sympathy for others who are not able to join in the mass consumption that feeds follow-home robberies and smash and grabs all while we follow our favorite celebrity or tik our toks.
Interestingly a few months ago on Jeopardy there was an "answer" about a recent genocide and no one got the "question" right. Blank stares actually from all three. The Question was' "What is Rwanda". Most other answers about movie stars were met with the right question from the contestants.
Clearly some tyrants and some genocides are important and others score low or not at all. 800,000 should have been enough to get on the map, but there are other factors to consider--such as what types of Rolex were the slaughtered wearing and did they use contour make-up? Empathy needs to know these things.
8 Billion people in the world. Things weren't even working well when there were only 4 billion, or 2, or one. Eternal rip tide.
People are like fruit. Everyone wants to figure out who is a banana and who's an apple or mango as we love to label each other for hierarchical purposes. Of course nowadays you can be an apple AND a mango as we declare our genes to be traitors. Apparently 21% of younger fruit are not the fruit others think they are. Back in my day that was 3% according to poll sources. A decade ago the unknowable figure was 10%. Well, to each his own and all the best to all.
But . . . All fruits, ALL, can also get rot and mold. And worms. What percentage I don't know. Still, they may fall to the ground and sprout up all over again. Or be pecked by a bird--seeds swallowed, fertilized and shat out. The circle of life . . . and death . . . and the circle of unending need to fill emptiness. So many things just don't stick to emptiness's ribs, though. Like selfies. Very little nourishment there. You have to keep eating voraciously at real life. You can't "make memories" on purpose. Not the best ones anyway.
The World is a Sow's Ear.