I sometimes get concerned for friends who are doing it tough. In today’s climate it is hard to keep a clear mind. Especially with work pressures from scarcity and competition. Also the alarming climate warnings that are playing out, the rental crisis, inflation and wars that are turning the world we knew on its head (in ‘wars’, I also mean potential wars as well as a current war).

If you want to get some counselling then you have to wait for months and possibly shell out money that you may be struggling to make. In this light it doesn’t look very positive and if anything the problems that will come next will only be worse. So how do you stay clear headed when even in the best of times people find that next to impossible.

Being in one’s own company is most people’s worst nightmare and then in Sydney within five days there were five gangland shootings and not to mention the news is never good. I suppose as for myself I can only make little contributions to anything positive, such as using public transport rather than owning a car. My home uses low energy appliances and I use half the amount of energy of a single person dwelling even though there are me and my daughter in the dwelling.

I can’t do anything much to change my friends positions, I do have problems of my own and I am basically in a pretty good position but I am not immune to what is going on either. If I was going to go on a negative rant I could list a few things more but I have in a way accepted where I am right now, where the world is right now and maybe I am an idiot but I am somewhat hopeful.

I am not hopeful for the next five or so years, anything can happen but I don’t want to fall into a whirlpool of defeat. Although things are currently looking pretty bad, really it has been a slow grind over decades and I think SodaJerks Terror Nullius explains the story in a more interesting way than I could. If you want to know why we are at this point go to a screening and laugh until you cry. Then see Hello Dankness.

I suppose it is not a very auspicious time but one thing you can do is wait for a more auspicious time because things change every day. A lot of what is going on actually gives me some hope but that is hard to put in words because it is so nasty too. It is a big contradiction, there are big changes but also a lot of the same but different. I suppose be prepared for anything and if you expect worse to come and it is even a little less worse than expected we might feel a bit better than we currently do. Believe me I am not convinced either.