The Living Journal of Iris

My name is Iris. I am the wife of an amazing Husband of 17 years. The mother of four wonderful girls (all grown and gone.) And 12 even greater grand children (moving ever so fast towards adulthood.)

No,life is not a box of chocolates it is more like this huge roller coaster and we just roll with the twist and move on. You cannot control people or things, only how you react to the person or situation.

Friday, June 18, 2010

World Peace One Person at a Time.

   Have you ever considered that world peace would solve 95% of the crisis today?  Probably not if you are like the millions out there that like drama.  Now, I am  not a dramatic person.  I do however stand up wholeheartedly for what i believe in. 

   As a small child my grandmother and I used to set on the foot of the bed and watch tv, snap bean, shell peas, or sew.   It was time that was special just to us.  We would talk about current and future event.  But no matter what, you should hold to what you believe.  If you feel it, stick to it.  And I wholeheartedly feel that with unity we could beat the current crisis of the world if people united as one.
  When you have a angry and desperate world as we currently do, things get blown out of per portion. Someone may say your mama wears combat boot and here we go full fledged drama has started over a stupid quote.  Get real here.  Or you may be wearing your feelings on your sleeve and being in a vulnerable state.  And believe me I am the worlds worst.  I forget to say no to drama.

  There is a sight that i found very helpful.  A complaint free world was started on the primes that it takes 21 days to get rid of a bad habit.  They believe that if you go 21 days without complaining or being negative that you can master this. Give it a try it is free.  www.acomplaintfreeworld.org

  I am sitting here looking for world peace sites as I type.  I found it very strange that nearly everyone that came up on a google search had to do with government or money.  Now that being said.  I am not anti government.  I am for limited government. I am not against money either but believe that credit is bad and  money is the root of evil and yes you need money.  Or do you?  There is a such thing as barter.  Bartering is a completely free way of obtaining what you need or want.  Barter works like this.  I need tomatoes and you have them.  You need squash we trade and we are both happy and it did not cost a penny.  Now this may take a while to find a network but hey we can find Mickey d's and wally world surely we can do this.
  Another way is to leave the mainstream crap behind.  Stop buying into the whole OH you need this or that.  No you don't, you want it.  You want it because it is new and cool.  And so does all the other impulse buyers in the world.  The I phone is a perfect example.  $200.00 for a cell phone with a two year contract..  It has no insurance available, the plans cost more and it just does not make sense.  Yes they are cool but I have seen my own daughter saying I cannot live without my I phone.  REALLY, are you kidding me.
  New vehicles,  Now my husband is the worst.  He really believes that i need a new car.  I do not.  I would have been just happy with my mustang.  But no he wanted me to get rid of it.  It really did not make sense.  we gave up a vehicle that was paid for to get one that had huge payments.  Now that made no sense what so ever.  But he was afraid I was going to kill myself in the mustang.  Once the realization hit it was like "what have we done." Now I am unhappy because we have pmts again.  Our wants have way over shadowed the needs for a long time and I am working hard to correct that.
   Now lets all get on the same page and see how many ideas we can come up with and implement to work towards a world that is stress free and happy.  Can we each do  (starting slowly) two random acts on kindness daily.  And preferably make then to an actual human you do not know.

Until next time Have a Happy and productive year.

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