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Wednesday, March 13, 2024,

"What if" thoughts can help one's condition or hurt one's condition. 

Very often the "what if's" that we're fed through the Entertainment Industry (Social Media, "News", etc.) are very dismal and gloomy "what if's"......what if the polar ice caps all melt in 5 years.....what if WWIII is already brewing.......what if all the food disappears and all of the clean water evaporates......PANIC PANIC PANIC!!!!

But, just as feasible and just as possible, are "what if" scenarios that counter all of this panic, fear, doom, and dread:

  1. What if WWIII actually never happens......what if the last World War ended in the 1940's and another one never occurs again in human history....what if?
  2. What if the polar ice caps don't melt, what if our planet is not doomed, and what if many of the radical shrieks to panic are actually wrong and are shrieking about things that will never occur?
  3. What if the current state of the human race isn't as dismal and contentious as my screens insist it is.  What if the current state of humanity is actually far better than projected by our Entertainment Industry?....what if?

All problems facing humanity, even the problems that seem complex and insurmountable, have feasible solutions. 

What if, despite how tempting it is to despair, what if there's no reason to despair at all?

What if everything is going to be ok?

Time to begin today's practice...

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