I feel like the western world is quietly burning to death while I sit here and eat chocolate covered almonds. I don't know if its nearing 40, coming out of "the baby years" again or that I'm just paying more attention to the news, but does anyone else think the world is going crazy? I am shocked every time I load a webpage. The federal government is still shut down (no one really cares...) ICE is arresting everyone, Charlie Kirk was murdered, there was a mass shooting in NC, an NBA gambling scandal and everywhere I look everyone's text messages and tweets are being used against them.
Is this what we have to look forward too? I mean, great-grandma's letters were something to blush at, but now I have 602 Facebook posts and 7,000 text messages that some forward-thinker in 3062 is going to publish when they write their book on 2020. May it never be.
We already love to read old letters from the 1900s. Yes, I'm talking about you. And me. Realize right now that someone in a self driving, possibly flying car is going to get all nostalgic about your Facebook posts you wrote when you were drunk and 17... and judge an entire era by it.
Look, I deleted my Facebook but I bet if I hadn't I also would blush from the mere stupidity of things I posted in 2011. Has anyone forgotten that people grow? I don't get how people brandish tweets from 15 years ago like it's a smoking gun. People change. Or maybe we all need a PR company to manage our social media empires now. I bet Blake Lively is regretting many things when she wakes up in the morning. Because all this stuff exists forever. I can't imagine how many books there will be 600 years from now deconstructing our era from television shows, tweets, blogs, Facebook posts and news articles. I hope they don't read Reddit or craigslist. Or, worse. What if all that survives is Reddit and craigslist?
Be careful what you share online guys. The government is watching. Jay Jones is also learning this lesson. Virginia is in hot water right now, right on the cusp of an election and the democrats are ahead! Abigail Spanburger is running on the Liberal ticket and she promises to reform Virginia by bringing all levels of abortion back. She is also for raising taxes and instituting gun laws. She also wants to reform homeschooling.
In VA right now you can only have an abortion up to 26 weeks, apparently that is just not enough time? I'm not a democrat and the thought of this lady being voted in gives me mental hives. Oh well. I firmly believe that it is one's citizens that make the nation. I try not to blame public figures or those holding political seats for every social faux pas or problem. Every person makes this nation either better or worse and I hope to raise kids that contribute to the good of society by spreading truth, goodness, and beauty. And I know I can do that in a state where the governor is either democrat or republican.
It's our country, after all, so we have only ourselves to blame for the deplorable state it is in.
But I really don't need any more home-school paperwork. I'm tired enough. I hope she doesn't win. It would make my life easier.
But perhaps that isn't the point.
Anyway, I digress. The internet is a scary and overwhelming place at times, and I am not even someone who checks the news daily. But here I am sharing my diary on the internet. I mean, I'm not a public figure, just a tired homeschooling mom but sometimes even I have doubts. And there are many things I do not share. Not because of the government, but mainly because some things are just too personal.
I would love to talk about the following topics because I have many thoughts to share, but I haven't. I'd love to talk about my friend who I miss. I'd love to talk about my sex life. And my mother in law. And my sister. And share about my struggles with _________. But I know all that isn't important and what is important is that I keep looking forward and keeping my eyes on God and celebrating the wins in life. Everyone has contention. I have amazing kids...a house, a husband who loves me. I am breathing and God has given me this day. This is enough!
One day this blog will fall silent and while I hope my kids will write, all of it will be left behind as I go where God calls me.
And that is what I think on when I'm falling asleep with the dishes not all the way done and two piles of laundry to put away and realizing I forgot to brush the baby's hair. God is all around and in between, especially when I'm not enough. And I'm never enough.
And that's enough philosophy for today. I'm going to read more about Emma M. Lion and eat another handful of chocolate almonds.
