It is such a mine numbingly boring waste of time playing patience either with playing cards but especially on my phone. When I think of it over the years since the free game has existed I’ve played it . Two ,Three maybe Four times a year , I watch the cascade of cards go into their four piles and think ” I won”. To get that buzz of winning, I’ve probably played ten times a day.
It’s really a switch off, and thankfully, to a large extent I’ve switched it off. Today I very rarely play as I look for things now that maybe add a new dimension to my thoughts, expand them and add compound interest.
What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?
So what is the most positive thing I have done in 2024, well it’s pretty much a constant.
I have ignored what the Media in all it’s forms which has been pushed( marketing term) on to me, or if something has caught my interest, I have never taken what I’ve been told at face value and have investigated or even just sat down and contemplated deeply (some would say pointlessly) on what the actual truth may be.
Yes, it’s a slow process, but rewarding and I feel at peace with myself.
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?
Some have favourite places,others have favourite places thrust upon them.
The St Ives Car Park was most definitely thrust upon me.
I first visited the place with my late mum and dad who were visiting me in Bristol where I had started a new job as a sales representative for a now bankrupt manufacturer of chocolate.
I was rather pleased with my new Company Car,so one day I offered to take them out for a drive.I’d heard about St Ives in Cornwall and thought it would be nice for a visit.
A four hours drive each way in torrential rain and we only had a brief half hour walk around the car park at the top of St Ives,we could see through the mist ,the town harbour and got the impression it would have been nice,if the weather had been better.Still it was getting dark and we had to get back.
I had forgotten about St Ives and really hadn’t a clue where it was,until I met my husband whose family holidays were always two weeks in Cornwall(Kernow). We had such wonderful times,and of course we visited the St Ives Car Park on a nice day.
I just remembered getting my bearings and retracing the steps I took with my late mum and dad around that Car Park .
I had quite forgotten the St Ives Car Park , but those few metres brought back a happy memory of my parents ,of time spent with them.I walked through the town of St Ives in a daze, in hot sunshine and couldn’t help but think how much they would have enjoyed the walk too.
What is one thing you would change about yourself?
Most definitely the late great David Bowie summed up how we should all feel about external forces asking us to look at ourselves and change.
I share the lyrics and the song in the link below and if the link works in your region. It’s a lesson in how to handle change and surely the Great Man’s life indeed was a lesson in dealing with external forces and changes.
I don’t know what would happen to the lives of animals who we breed for eating.They basically would not exist as there was no need for them to exist.
The cruelty associated with the “use ” of animals needs to stop.I would give up meat eating straight away if I thought it would,but it won’t.
So I try and buy meat from a good source with as kind of a supply chain that is verified to me.
I could be vegetarian and would be if there wasn’t a nagging doubt in my head that by not acknowledging or buying from the “meat ” industry that standards will deteriorate and cruelty will continue.There would be no good practice.
If I could afford them I would have a collection of different coloured and shapes of Wellingtons and I would look forward to the rain and splashing in puddles with them as well as digging in the mud.
Secondly I love Gloves, with no fingers, fingers and mittens. I do really like wool ones, even though they aren’t suitable for wearing when it’s wet.
What technology would you be better off without, why?
If we are able to strip away our layers of technology and find we are better off without it,because continuously being faster and better is subject to the law of diminishing returns then that is no bad thing.
We are all looking for that ultimate experience that connects us with others and justifies our existence in this World ,bit like having sex and creating offspring without the difficulties of raising the little blighters.
“You have an I Q higher than 83.7% of the existing population and we have just scored our highest score ,equivalent to beating 95% of the population”.
Playing a free Play store game means I’m bombarded by these statistics. Are they real or made up,I don’t know,but we would be better off without them.
I contrast that with my love of taking unique quirky pictures of my natural surroundings such a this one of winter berries.Out of focus and totally unprofessional,well you try taking a photo with a dog pulling at you with one hand and a full poo bag in the other.Technology in my phone camera will fix that,but I don’t want it to.
The picture to me reflects my experience. Available technology increasingly concentrates on perfection and replication of how we would like to see things.
I would say hold on,use the hammer,the paintbrush,make mistakes,make your own World,we are not in a race with each other. Yes it’s handy to have tools to make things better,but life is not perfection and accuracy,some of the best discoveries have happened by accident
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