Saving The World?

I often wonder if being too caring leads to controlling. Maybe that's why we get into wars, because we may be seen as interfering instead of helping. I don't mean never help; there are times of crisis and we should do all we can, and we have. I mean this attitude that many have that they need to save the world, yet it's crippling some because of it. 

Now and then, I think about this African woman, I watched on a video, who was yelling for America to stop helping Africa so much as it was making them weak. That they needed to learn to be more self sufficient. There are people who have research financial aid given to countries and say this is true. It has often crippled their economy. 

And then, there are commercials, which are created to tug at our heart strings, telling us to help those less fortunate. But are they? Do they want our help? Do they think they need help? Or is it to feed into another's fantasy instead? Possibly a money making scheme? Because we all know there's good and bad in everything.

Sometimes, I feel it's the haves projecting way too much onto the have nots. The philanthropists needing to save people. But, and I mean this seriously, do we have that right? Unless someone asks for help, do we have a right to change their way of life? Especially if their way of life isn't looked on by them as poor or deprived? It's just their way of life. They don't know any better. We implant that feeling onto them that it's bad. 

You see, I learned that as a child. I was happy with what I had. I didn't know it was supposed to be better. We didn't have a lot of money, but we were rich in things money couldn't buy. I was able to smile and appreciate my life until I grew older and saw myself in other's eyes. It was then that I felt like I was less because of their "poor you" attitude. I felt uncomfortable. I didn't like the, occasional, patronizing feeling I sensed. But, was it just me or did others feel the same? If they did, I could understand how this could, among other things, cause discord and resentment in some people being "saved."

Being a people watcher, most of my life, taught me never to assume. There are those who really need help and were gracious, but they had lines we shouldn't cross. It taught me that some people were perpetual users, abusing the kindest of others, and got angry when they were deprived of their freebies. And yes, as in my case, it taught me that some people don't think they're poor and need saving. They're often more happy and content in their simplicity then most of us are in our materialistic world. They may even think we're the ones that need saving.

Dream: Psychic Attachments

Strange dream this morning. It left me feeling it was a personal message not to sweat the small stuff.

I was trying to make plans for things and kept feeling doubt. Couldn't shake it off. Then I was sitting next to a very old man and telling him about my feelings, and he told me that he knew what was going on. I said, "maybe it's because of my own doubts or insecurities."

He said, "No, it's because of other's desires. You have too many strings attached to you. It's their strings of wishes and hopes for them. You're having these doubts because someone could be ill and may want you nearby. Or someone may be planning a trip. They may want to include you, but haven't told you, yet. Sometimes, it's someone in the universe giving you doubt about making plans because they know someone is getting ready to cross over and they want you nearby. See? Plenty of attachments being created to give you doubt."

I asked, "So, what do I do? If I stay I may begin to feel I'm being used. That I'm only serving another's needs."

He said, "Then set your priorities, make your plans the best you can. If it's meant to be, it will be. The flow can't always be about another unless you keep allowing it. Don't forget, even if someone gets ill or crosses over, their destiny is already seen. Do you think you can change that by not going anywhere?

I asked, "Can I?"

He asked, "Can you?"

I woke up wondering how many of my thoughts are attaching to other's plans and giving them doubt. Then I wondered about the demands on God and His council and wondered what they do if or when they want a vacation. Do they get one or are the demands (strings) too great on them to remove?

Then I chuckled and thought, I bet their scissors are huge.

Where Do You Draw The Line?

I was having a conversation with a friend last night about various medications. I mentioned that I can't blame people for doing whatever they can to have a better quality of life. But, this morning, I had a message in a dream about that. This man asked me: "where do you draw the line in someone pursuing their quality of life when that pursuit may harm another or others?"

Hmmm... deep.

It made me think of many areas. For instance, drug abuse for one. Drug pushers (legal or illegal) need drug addicts or drug dependency people. Or, prostitution, as another example. People are deprived of their quality of life in order to help another have what they want.

But the one major thing that came to mind is people arriving illegally into other countries, seeking a better quality of life, but are possible germ carriers, which may cause a pandemic in the country their fleeing to. What about those natives' quality of life? History has advised us of past pandemics. So, why are some promoting this illegal, mass-migration mentality?

Unless some actually want a pandemic to kill off millions of people like the 1918 pandemic. Population control? Think about it. We create vaccines, but then there is a scare put out about them. Then there's mass migration worldwide. What next? Another pandemic? Decreasing population worldwide?

This could be a flight of fancy of an over active mind. But, it could also be from someone observing and seeing things adding up. You see, if people are becoming obsessed about over population, and thoughts create our reality, will our thoughts create a mass de-population? Is that something the "behind the scenes" people may be doing today? Even unconsciously? After all, we're only creating a better quality of life - in the long run.

Yes, that was a very profound dream message. Where do you draw the line?