Bar-coding children

Yes now it is getting under way

In the UK the government is introducing a scheme to fingerprint and eye scan children as young as five years old

There will of course be safeguards to protect the information

However it should be noted that the police in the UK have the right to enter any database they want and frequently do so

So yet another step down the road to lifetime tagging

Always in the interests of security or health or other such noble safeguards

Once done there is no turning back because the march of such logic knows no limits

Cannot stop or turn back

Few will understand the inevitable end point of such moves

Maybe just as well

Just a few years before children are tagged at birth

A lifetime's control with no escape

Credit and debt

Buy now pay later

So many have debts

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Pay and pay, and pay

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All their lives in fact

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Never get in front, never win

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And then interest rates go up

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Ouch!

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What about the idea of not buying if you cannot afford something?

Credit tends to get out of hand

Funnily enough if you only buy what you can afford to pay for in cash you have different worries

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You do not have all the toys that credit can buy

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But then again you have no end of month stress about how to pay the interest or principle

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Thought for the day

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Do you really want to live in debt for the rest of your life?

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Might be nicer just to be poor without illusions

Air travel today

Isn’t what it used to be

For most of us today there is always hassle

Getting to and from the airport

Checking in

Security controls

Delayed flights

Often crowded

Small leg room on most flights

Poor quality food

Frequent announcements asking us to buy something or other

Then the same all over again on the way back

No way out of it

Getting from a to b is not what it used to be.

So as this is our reality

Look at it another way

How nice to be going somewhere else

I do not mind what happens on this day .

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This is my reality

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How nice to be doing something new, different

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Take pleasure from the experience

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Make it a nice day

Certain light

Late in the afternoon, early evening when the sun is shining

Gives things a shiny luminosity

A special light

It also gives one a feeling of appreciation at how it lifts things

If you are not too busy in your thoughts that is

Most are hurrying from point a to b

Living in cities also blurs our appreciation

Just seeing the sky here and there

Endless man signs of buildings and man clutter obscuring views

Choose to notice nature wherever you are

Life moves so fast it is no good taking occasional trips to the countryside

We need nature daily

To be at one

To experience the summer, the moods, the smells of cut grass

Make yourself part of nature not just an occasional spectator.

Sudden anger

Maybe you flair up

Maybe your friend, your mother, your father does

You touched a button

Often it is not your problem

It's theirs

However in such situations better to get out of the way if you can

Because in their anger they will involve you too

Then more people get hurt

Walk away do not let them have time to press your buttons

They most certainly will because when in anger that's what we do

Then nobody wins

Learn to read the signs

Don't let sudden anger catch you out

Repetition

Is how it is for most life

Human life is repetition

Can become reflexive

Often does

Familiarity as they say breeds contempt

Are you careless with your repetitions?

Are your relationships careless repetitions?

Do you care any longer or do you take them for granted

Pay attention one day it may no longer be there

Relationships can appear stable and then bang all over

Just because you did not pay attention

It had become a repetition

So much of our lives is repetition

Change this

Pay attention to everything you do today

See if you can be better with all your repetitions

Improve the way you do all those humdrum everyday things

And with people give each one something special

A smile

A word

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone did!

You start first

Be love for someone today

Bad boss

He owns me

He is a bully

He expects me to drink with him after work

He takes up all my time

He puts me in charge then questions everything, all the time

He is always phoning me asking for things

There are bosses like this, many

And you?

You feel like an abused prisoner

Under stress, tired out, jumpy

So why do you stay?

Amazing how many people present reasons why they cannot move

And yes they are prisoners

But not of the boss but of their own minds

Get real see life as it is

Decide to move and then make plans to have it happen

There is no excuse for wasting your life in a miserable situation

Plan, execute, move.

Why try?

Because it's what humans do

Throughout history it's what we have been doing

Trying

All our progress and achievements come from trying

Without this we are nothing

What are you trying to do?

How are you trying?

We cannot all be heroes and neither does nature want this

Nature wants to know that you doing your best

Each and every day

Do your best

Try to understand

Why you are here

Ask how can I grow inside

All our growth and understanding is on the inside

You can wear all you like on the outside

But if you are crippled inside then it makes for nothing.

As John Lennon said

"You can’t hide when you are crippled inside"

Try

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It's what we do

Liar

Is not a word used by polite people in these politically correct times

However we all know liars

People who cannot be wrong

People who prevaricate

Who will never admit

Some lie right to our face

Be warned do not share confidential information

Do not confide

They will use this to advance their own interests

Liars seldom change

Lying is their chosen life strategy

To the end

Poor people

Leave liars alone

Lying is evil

Yes evil so call it by its proper name even if only to yourself

This way you will not make mistakes with these people

There is no friendship with evil only advantage to them

Until they have exhausted your use to them

Then chaio

Do not be a pawn

Leave liars alone

Confusion

Is something we all experience from time to time

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Unless

We live in a world where we know all the answers

Where we are sure that our way is the best

Few humans have this knowledge

Let alone the wisdom

Unfortunately we all know some people who know the answers to everything

Leaving them aside confusion comes to all of us on occasion

Confusion comes from the unfamiliar, the unexpected, the incomprehensible

When this comes as it will at some point, stop, observe look again then act

There are situations where we are required to act immediately, still time to look twice confirm before acting.

Might be only a split second however this second look is often the one that determines whether or not our actions are the correct ones.

Confusion comes in many forms and only the most extreme might require immediate action

For others take more time, share if there are people around

Better to ask than put yourself in jeopardy

Confusion is challenging

Meet it with equanimity and prior preparation

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There are many situations that can be made easier with a bit of prior planning

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On a simple level if your lights fail do you know where the fuses are?

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Know where your torch is?

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Take this up a level and you can see that a little thought about many things can avoid confusion

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Prepare for the unexpected that often involves confusion.