@Chris, your comment made me laugh aloud

@Bob, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. It’s great that we are and will be seeing more cooperation, unity and peace!!

@Slade, well…it takes one to be in the same shoes to understand what you are trying to say. I am not sure if I am processing experience for others but I definitely feel blessed to be in my “observer” position and to be able to view things with awareness. Namaste

Thank you for honoring my post with a link — I really appreciate that!

I was pleased to see the part of the post that spoke to you, because it originally felt like the most “personal” part of that message, and one that maybe a lot of people missed… I suppose that those of us who have established ourselves as a filter for Collective experience are that much more aware of the importance of making sense of events in our lives.

There is a blessing, I feel, in processing experience for others — that you have greater focus in examining it for yourself.

We are working on developing a next generation economic system that replaces capitalist competition with economic cooperation that serves all the people of earth, rather than capital, or a few people at the expense of everyone else.

There is a diverse assortment of ancient and more recent civilizations that have been evolving separately and are now coming together. They are clashing because they are coming together.

Baha’u'llah says that, “Earth is only one country and all mankind are its citizens.”

The human race is coming together. A new global civilization is arising. This new universal and divine civilization founded by Baha’u'llah is causing the old world order to collapse.

This is not the end of the world, it is the beginning of the next generation of human evolution. Today, scientists investigate the Iridium layer and hypothesize that an asteroid or comet with more Iridium than earth, hit earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. 100,000 years from now, scientists will be investigating the pollution layer. Before that, there is war, crime and disunity. After that there is one universal and divine civilization evolving peacefully and prosperously.
Allah’u'Abha

Millions of us will come to an end, and the world will continue on without us.

I think you hit the key. It’s not what happens in life, but how we respond to it. Unless we’re a genie, we can’t whip up the ultimate experiences — instead, as a human, we make the most of what we’ve got.

@Jonathan, I’m glad that you like the post. I’m finding out that a good opening is always essential to draw in the readers!

@Carlota, it’s great that you’ve found the stories here useful as reminders. Asking ourselves “whys” aimlessly cannot bring about clarity. Choosing a wise response in things that we can control will most certainly be helpful.

Next time I come across an unwelcome (lol!) challenge I will remember that it is a fertilizer

Thanks for telling these 3 insightful stories!

Thank you so much for writing such a post. I believe that things happen for a reason. It took me a while to see that but whenever something happens (good or bad), I know that there is a lesson behind it.

I can look back at my short life and see how all the pieces fit together. I have been through some hard times (who hasn’t) and with each experience, I became wiser. So with all the talk about the economy and all the depression it is causing, I think it is causing people to finally wake up.

What the future holds, none of us knows, but I do know that in the long run we will all be okay. I think people have to start taking more responsibility for their actions and realize that we are all connected. If the mortgage crisis has taught us anything, it has taught us that the greed of a few has effected us all.

@Melissa, we sure need to unlearn the bad habit of complain but to look for gems of wisdom in all that is around us!

@Maya, it’s great that you find that it’s best we put our energies to the best use possible!! If more of us can think in the same manner, just think how much brighter our world will be!!