Human Beings Being Human

Uncle Bubba keeps himself busy, maybe a little too busy. He's a blue-collar man that has to work to pay the bills and to have nice things. And as his years mature he looks back fondly on the decades but only briefly; there is too much to see ahead. Bubbie realizes that the past is only a memory and he can select the memories that he wants to hang onto; after all, it's his and only his. And even though much of his workdays are spent outdoors, the outdoors is where he also finds his solace. Nature has a flow, a way of being that can serve as a guide if one pays attention. 

But also in Bubbie's view, every hassle in life has man's fingerprints upon it. Think about it. Outside of nature's impositions, which man has found shelter from, what are your daily hassles and where do they originate? It's a boss, a spouse, a friend or acquaintance, or even a stranger. It's traffic, right? Or an appliance, a contraption, or a  piece of equipment or machinery that's not working as it should. How about your computer, or your cell phone; can you get a good wifi signal or enough cell towers to get service let alone the great service that you were promised? Or do you have to reboot and hope for the issues to magically go away? Do I hear an Amen? Yeah really, in this day and age, after all this time they haven't improved much in alleviating hassles, have they? They, you know, men and women.

Maybe you say that you have some health issues and that's just biology. OK, Uncle Bubba ain't no doctor, but he's wise enough to know from worldly experience that aside from God's providence, we are being poisoned because the environment has been poisoned. We suffer due to man's "improvements" of God's creation. But it's the nature of human beings to be meddling in something whether they should or they shouldn't. They definitely don't check with The Creator first and ask for permission; a practice that might just save us all the suffering, but I digress. In Bubbie's view, if we all took ownership of our thoughts and actions aiming them towards self care and then the care of others, all the while doing our best to do no harm to others, we'd have a few less hassles.