I have a hard time grasping the world outside of about 50 miles from me. I know that is not a very flattering thing to say about myself, but it is true. The fact that life is going on right now in Venice and Cairo and Moscow all at the same time, is just totally weird to me. I don't know why. When I try to think about the fact that the planet is currently hurdling through space in a perfect path around the sun, my brain sort of freezes. I recently have been sent a number of world meters or clocks which tell you all sort of fascinating data such as how many people have been born today, how many gallons of gas were pumped and how many species went extinct. Check out Worldometer. It has great stats such as net gain of people on the planet today or how many overweight people there are compared to malnourished people (it will surprise you!) When my brain gets overloaded trying to think about the fact that there are 170,000+ more people on the planet today than there were yesterday, I check out how many hours humans have wasted on the computer waiting for websites to download. Then I turn off my computer and go back to my very small world.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Things to overload my brain … it doesn’t take much
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despite it being paralyzing you still broaden your worldview by going to things like World Vision's Africa presentation, and that is awesome. You step outside of your small world because you know it's important. A lot of people don't do that.
oh boy! i'm right there with you. sometimes it's just all i can do to get through my own day. when you stop and try to fathom everyone else, it's CRAZY!!! lately i've been thinking about everyone's garbage, waste. if our one little family could produce so much just multiply that by the billions and it's mind boggling! but it gets you motivated if you can stop yourself from digging under a rock and hiding!
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Sorry, I was the anonymous person with the ?? marks. I'm trying to make the blogging thing work.
We are wasteful, I totally admit it. There is so much I could do rather then being on the computer. We are so amazingly fortunate being in the USA and having what we do. (clean water, carpet, things we take for granted.) Katy
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