Why do things have to change for the worse?

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In fact, the world is always a bad place. We just tend to miss that point. Yet there have always been horrible earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, volcanoes erupting and exploding, wars, plagues, mudslides, etc. etc. etc. It sucks. It's always sucked. It will continue to suck.

It's human nature that we always say, "Back in the old days things were better" and "I had to walk twenty miles to school in the snow!" but the fact is...back in the old days, things were crappy. Back in the old days they had the Cold War. And then there was Vietnam, and Korea, and oh yeah, a little thing about dropping two atomic bombs on human beings and oh yeah, something called the Holocaust. And before that? Mustard gas warfare ring a bell? Or getting away from human-caused atrocities, there's always the horrific things that have happened because of nature, the list of which is long and depressing.

And yet, we remain. Life sort of goes on. In Nagasaki after the bombing, doctors and nurses struggled to save lives and care for the injured and dying, and they did it as they themselves were being horribly poisoned by the radiation that would eventually claim their lives.

As human beings we like to imagine that the world once was a good, safe place. It has never been so. Not once. Not ever. The fact is, it's a terrible place where mind-bendingly, soul-destroyingly awful things happen every moment of every second of every day and go on happening without ceasing and we, as conscious, thinking beings, must rise above this every moment of every second of every day, and live. And try to make some value. And try to create some meaning, some hope, some joy. Whether we succeed or not is irrelevant.

Thank you for letting me know.

I guess we tend to worry more about the little things than we do the bigger things.

I know what you mean Larsen.

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That's right!

I hear "Big Brother" is quite popular in England as well!