Food for thought

[Blurock]

The first thing that came to my mind reading the OP was even when we can't control our circumstances, we can choose how we respond to those circumstances - and I was thinking mainly attitude in that.

But it's more complicated than just having a positive attitude, I guess. Be too accepting and you run the risk of being complacent about a situation you should be changing. Comes down to the serenity prayer, perhaps?

So true, Dave.

This is how a shirty day starts; (from an article I read the other day)

Suppose you are having breakfast. Your 9 year old spills coffee on your new shirt. You scold her and tell her how clumsy and useless she is. Your wife chips in and you have a huge argument. The child starts crying and runs to her room. You go and change your shirt but now the little one does not want to school. You eventually leave home late. You start cursing all the slow drivers who get in your way. You get a speeding fine and now you are really late! You drop the child off and rush to the office. You are in such a mood that your colleagues decide that you are not good company and avoid you for the rest of the day. Your wife and child avoid you for the rest of the week.

You do know that you could have avoided all of this, do you? Your day would have started much better only if you did not over-react the way that you did. That has changed your mood from positive to negative. I believe that positive thoughts create positive energy, while negative thoughts create negative energy. We can decide which person we want to be.

[Citizen X]

It is more important to change how we experience reality than to change the actual content of reality.

Food for thought was Ub40’s very first single, released in 1980, the term at the time was ‘7 single,’ now our younger friends won’t know what is seven single is! I’ll help you out, it was a smaller vinyl lp, 7 inches or 18 cm
“Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes,
Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies.

Skin and bones is creeping, doesn’t know he`s dead.
Ancient eyes are peeping, from his infant head.
Politician`s argue sharpening their knives.
Drawing up their Bargains, trading baby lives.


Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.


Hear the bells are ringing, Christmas on its way.
Hear the angels singing, what is that they say?
Eat and drink rejoicing, joy is here to stay.
Jesus son of mary is born again today.


(Chorus)

Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.”