“May You Live In Interesting Times”

Everyone is familiar with this Chinese “curse”. The implied meaning is that interesting times are turbulent and troubling times and that it is better for things to go along at a peaceful pace. Undisturbed and harmonious.

Well of course it is. But are you aware that the Chinese pictogram for “danger” is the exact same pictogram for “opportunity”?

What do you make of that?

I’ll tell you what my take on it is. The Chinese, being a 5,000 year-old civilization, should know a thing or two about wisdom and double-meanings and metaphors.

And when you think about it, danger to one is another one’s opportunity. Just as one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. And a half-empty glass is also a half-full glass too.

And, uh . . . ahem . . . interesting times are accursed times.

Have you noticed that the Mayan calendar is running out in, oh . . . only 22 months?

And that Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving towards Russia at the rate of 40 miles each year?

And that birds are dropping from the sky in huge numbers? And that the frequency of earthquakes as well as UFO sightings are on the uptick?

And today it was reported that baby porpoises were washing up on the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, cause unknown but suspicions lean towards the BP oil spill.

I am not making light of these occurrences, only meaning to point out this profound truth: Earth, WHICH ESSENTIALLY MEANS WE HUMAN BEINGS, is at a crossroads. And a crossroads means a CHOICE.

Now I don’t know about you but having a choice excites the heck out of me.

Why?

BECAUSE CHOICES ONLY CONFIRM THAT OUR LIVES AND DESTINIES ARE IN OUR HANDS.

Don’t you feel empowered now, instead of threatened? I do.

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