As we approach 2013, with the main Christmas festivities calming down preparing ourselves for the New Year celebrations in just a few days, I have been resting indoors due to a nasty cough and cold with the TV on a lot more than usual. Throughout my summer, I was without one and I must say, the last 7 months have probably been a lot more productive without it. Instead I have chosen the radio as my soul company, it allows me to move around and focus on painting and creating rather than sitting in one room fixated with meaningless drivel that society calls ‘TV viewing’.
But in the last few weeks, I am finding that my tolerance for even the radio is becoming increasingly low and I find myself in a quiet lull where the ticking of the clock, the cats purring and the dogs snoring can be heard. Sounds that aren’t disruptive to my thoughts and don’t jangle my nerves.
So it has been a shock to the system to have my TV on more than usual just so that I don’t miss out on all the Christmas hype. Somehow I have found myself getting pulled in believing that the next programme or the next film will be more fulfilling to me than the last.
I watch the news hoping that at some point there will be a positive
bulletin, something for us all to celebrate ((and I don’t mean who won
X-factor or strictly come dancing) instead I hear about how
residents of Great Britain have suffered over Christmas with flooding in their homes,
motorists killed on motorways on their way to their family’s for Christmas and
how Christmas shopping has been ‘acceptable’ not ‘exceptional;’ this year, not
forgetting the rest of the world’s disasters, accidents and killings.
And then of course we have all the adverts in-between, telling
me we have Christmas sales on sofas, tv’s laptops and furniture and if I’m
still not satisfied, I can join an online Bingo site or start a new diet, but if
all that sounds too expensive, then we have a surprisingly good selection of
loan companies that allow us to borrow more money we can’t pay back, get us all
deeper in debt which in turn make us more depressed and so we buy more stuff
just to make us ‘happy’ again and so the cycle goes on.
I wonder when Society will wake up and shout enough is enough?!
We don’t need this rubbish.
The world IS NOT as
scary or evil as the media would like to portray. We DO NOT NEED a new sofa or car to make our lives complete. Nor any
amount of the highest technological electrical goods will make our lives run
more smoothly. We do not need to go on expensive faffy diets when all it takes
is a bit of sensible eating and a walk in the countryside along with a sense of
self-love to stay healthy. And we do not need to start an online bingo
addiction to escape our financial debt, when all we need to do is live our
lives without fear, to choose the light rather than the dark and to STOP listening to consumerism and the
media and live the life that God/the Universe had intended for us all.
I pray that 2013 will be a year for our lotus’s to open and
that joy and unconditional love can enter all of our hearts once again.
