Does the world and life never ending change bring you down ?

[randomxx]

Hi BB and all.

Everything changes soooo much , so often, so fast, especially now it's never ending with technology , and what we're seeing now and have over the last 20yrs in that department alone, hasn't even begun.

That one area alone will travel faster than light from here on now, and that will get faster too, ea yr it will all get and change faster and faster, especially with AI coming onto the scene. And all the stressors that come with it all. lt's suppose to make life better and easier but it's fact people are more stressed now than ever in history.

You buy a computer have it 2 yrs spend half of that getting it doing as it's told and then updates come and you've gotta go through it all again, and again and again. Same with everything. Nothing just shuts up and just works until you need a new one now, the bs with it along the way never ends.

Update this you need that this is new now you gotta get this to work it websites change non stop and they ruin them and just make them more complicated every time they touch anything.

l've had my phone 7yrs, prob should get a new one it's gonna clap out soon l'd guess but l dread the thought. My new computer just bloody wares me out non stop with all it's rubbish and demands.

But there's so much more.

Loved ones change and parents pass or get sick. Couples on family or friends that were young

All the terrible troubles in the world, the heartbreaking destruction and human lives, whole countries. Climate change will move as fast as technology now, they have no bloody idea how fast it will move from here and there's no way the world will be able to completely change fast enough to avoid it. Where l moved to 7yrs ago has completely different weather already to when l got here.That's happening everywhere,most just haven't twigged yet.lce is melting, storms are totally different , rainfalls moved. A beautiful tree you've admired and loved for yrs is gone and there's a housing estate sitting there, on and on and on.

And , selfishly in a way l guess too but your happy place changes so much too. Bands you grew up with are getting too old to play any more, if they even are. We lost Bowie , Pink Floyds soul bending guitar and sounds, he won't be able to play for much longer now , even Alice Coopers days are numbered amazing he's even still performing really, Stones - same, thank God Nick Cave at least should be around for awhile yet, we lost inxs, even ACDC have gotten old- l say them at school, now they're old.

lt's all too much.

rx

[randomxx]

ldk, it's just all so much. Things like music are just an example l listen to much newer stuff these days but point is, change, and most of it can't be undone, things just change so much so fast.

They're even talking about a big Australia again, l just mean what in the hell, they can't even look after what they have, our country. Build build build, roads never ending, infrastructure tunnels doctors psychiatrists tradies it's never ending.Yet our own people can't even get a home or see a doctor half the time and everything's just become money money money and gdp, growth and garbage, there's no soul anymore.

l suppose one trouble about needing a forum like this and a section like this,is that we also talk about the things that are giving us our problems, and doing that reading it all or even writing it all, can make us feel even worse.

So l'm sorry about being such a downer but there's just so much, it's all too much.

The only solution l can come up with is head in the sand and hope for the best.

rx

[therising]

Hi rx

Definitely one of the big challenges in life, managing gradually losing 'the good old days', when things seemed far more simple. With my daughter mentioning just the other day her and her boyfriend going to the drive-in, I consider how there are only 2 drive-ins left in Victoria. The thought pulls at a heart string as I recall fond memories of the local drive-in that ceased to exist some time ago. While my kids are 21 and 18, even they feel some sense of disappointment when it comes to some of the things they've lost (the local milkbars and video shops, just to name a couple).

I think, in this day and age, a lot can come down to the process of disappointment and the appointment of new things. Bit of a dual challenge. How we manage dis-appointing our self from being 'He/she who  loves experiencing this or that' (which no longer exists) and how we come to appoint ourselves to new roles (even the ones we're not happy with) can be such a mental, physical and even soulful kind of experience. For example, while not being super tech savvy, I appoint 1)Google or my kids for solving a basic problem when there's some issue with my laptop and 2)My local IT wiz if it takes me more than an hour to solve a problem that's beyond my expertise. The hour cut off point is what serves my nervous system. I've learned from past experience that once I go well beyond the hour mark it starts to mess with me physically (I can feel it) and it starts to generate inner dialogue that's just not good for me. I've actually told my IT guy 'You're good for my mental health'. So, I've dis-appointed myself from the role of 'She who continues to try and fix things for more than an hour'. 🙂

The process can definitely be more challenging when it involves people. When I think of my mum no longer being one of my 'go to' people for great adventure (due to her health and physical ability having declined) and my dad no longer being the person I once knew (while he struggles with a lack of mobility and progressive dementia), how people change over time really does something to you in a lot of ways. I think there's some grief there, even some grief when you look at an old photo of yourself while comparing it to what you now see in the mirror. From a soulful perspective, I think a healthy way of thinking is 'We're just packaged differently these days, we souls who have been here for a while'.

While I ask myself at times 'Is life meant to be challenging in such an ongoing way?', I acknowledge 'It is for those who can feel the challenges'. One of the ultimate challenges, I think, can come down to being a highly sensitive feeler. If we were completely insensitive, we wouldn't feel a single thing.