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Don’t it always seem to go

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til its gone

Joni Mitchell             

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The human ability to look at the shiny, the immediate, the trendy, the popular, the short term and the otherwise glamorous is well developed. People can fail to think things through. They can be petty and reactive.

Right now people are being persuaded that climate change is a bit of a con. This by people who want profit and personal gain. There is greenwashing and sportswashing. The popularist may claim net zero as a loony ultra-far-left ideology from their soap box.

“Vote for me, fuck the planet.” Seems to be one of the new mantra.

There are a lot of babies thrown out with the bathwater.

Afraid of facing up to a reality there can be a tendency for head in the sand cross fingers and hope “strategies”. People do not wish to see that which may be inconvenient to them or for them.

This form of put off today and maybe pay later thinking, is debt based. Tomorrow may never come so let’s make hay…anyone who disagrees is a fun sponge. Debt is however karmically bad.

The decision not to act is an action. A decision to prevaricate and procrastinate is a decision, nevertheless. This may be the path of least resistance. It seems less risky. When in fact it is very risky indeed. Procrastination is a risky endeavour. One whose risks are often ignored or downgraded in importance. Procrastination seems convenient.

More often than not the time for anything is now or much closer to now than many are willing to accept. One day tomorrow never comes…

What we value may change with the benefit of retrospect and hindsight. Yet the easy is more often chosen than the “difficult” even after hindsight has offered us lessons.

Learning by and through loss is something that can occur. The lessons of loss may not be accepted readily. Repetition may be needed. People can be slow learners.

It takes a while to understand that the overtly shiny bauble, the overtly enticing power, the seemingly offered advantage may not be all that it is first cracked up to be. Temptation by the shiny can lead to the loss of that which holds much deeper value and perhaps import. Fickle are humans. A quick fix, a sticking plaster is rarely a sound solution.

Humans are perhaps more primitive than they might like to admit. Shiny…

This time of year with the festivities in full swing can bring with it the metaphorical ghosts of Christmas past. They may rattle their chains in the psyche. Stuff can come out of the woodwork…

It is a weird time of year.

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Don’t it always seem to go

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til its gone

Joni Mitchell             

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