What's life "really" like?

Most people immediately take things for granted as soon as they open their eyes in the mornings, and never stop until they close them again. 
When you awake, it's perfectly natural for most of us  to refract light through the various lenses of the eye, so that we may see. So we take it for granted.

Most people automatically roll over and get up from their beds and walk to the bathroom. We take that for granted.

A great deal of us wake up in the mornings with a beautiful or handsome partner beside us (unfortunately not me) and we know they love us and want us. It makes us feel good to have that in our lives, knowing that when we get home at night, there will be someone there that loves and cares for you. And we take that for granted sometimes too.

But while we are enjoying all these things that create the selfish world we live on, and taking most of them for granted, what proportion of our thoughts are on those that don't have.

Does the loving husband who's just woken up in a nice soft bed with the stunning wife, ever consider the loving man who lives in his lonely house and wakes up alone every morning, wishing he could change places?
Do we all ever wonder, what a trial it must be to get out of bed in the mornings, when you are paralised or missing a limb, and what do we do to make it easier , when we're all so busy taking our fortunate bodily functions for granted.

When you wake up in the mornings, how many of you keep your eyes closed from the time you wake up, until the time you get to the breakfast table, just to try and understand how difficult it is to cope with complete darkness?

One of the biggest problems with the human race, is that there aren't enough of us that consider ourselves as such. We may be English or American, or French or Arab or Jew or Christian or Muslim, but the one thing that we all have in common, is the fact that we are all part of the human race. We are by definition a team, we are all made up of the same basic DNA and none of us can live without the others. 
We live in a world where our beliefs are our boundaries and the largest loss of life caused to the human race, has been done by it's own hand through our difference of religion, yet religion is supposed to teach compassion and care for our fellow human beings isn't it?

So what is our life really like? Is that the question we should ask? Or should we really be taking the time to think "What's life really like for the others"?

Are we safe or do we need to start asking our governments questions??

Are we safe? or do we need to start asking our governments questions??

This is a tricky subject to get started on because there is such a lot going on in the world that somehow effects every single one of us in some way. However there are things going on around the world that need to be talked about and questions need to be asked of our politicians.

Take a current map of the world and divide it in two vertically down the middle. Almost 50% of what you have in the right hand side of the map, is made up of countries that are either at war or are in serious need of medical assistance due to either war or disease or both. 

However, due to the fact that some of these countries seem to have the temperament and attitude of little boys playing in the school playground, it makes the situation worse. 

Well lets ask a few questions and see what we can come up with.  Ok the first little boy in the playground is Mr Putin.

He's the guy that was put-in place to try and build Russia from the ashes of the former Soviet Union, without the use or need of communism. To build foreign relations around the world and give Russia a chance of equal status and a good strong economy around the world.

Ok if he really wants to do that, then why are we seeing more and more reports of soviet military aircraft sighted over our air-spaces in Europe and Scandinavia? Why have there been reports of "possible" Russian submarines off the Swedish coast? And why is Mr Putin sending more Bears over Europe? 

Is this his way of telling us that if sanctions get to him too much and he throws his dummy out of the pram, we are being shown how loud he can scream? Surely he's not really so stupid.  

He has been asked on many occasions to remove Russian troops out of Ukraine, and each time he has denied it has anything to do with him. Is this the action of a "World Leader" with the interests of his people at heart or is he just a fool who's got himself into a situation he knows he can't get out of and still save face with his people?

He was doing pretty well for himself in the world of foreign affairs, until he made the dumb-ass (Americanism that fits perfectly) decision to annex Ukraine. He would have us all believe that its just farmers and part time soldiers fighting, which would mean that the millions of dollars spent on weapons and ammunition must mean the farmers are magicians and the soldiers go on leave with their boys toys worth hundreds of thousands. 

Ok so that's the first "Little boy liar" in the playground, but he's a player slowly backing himself into a corner, when all he has to do is take his soldiers out of what should be "His neighbor's" country. He'd rather see his countrymen and women die in the streets, than admit he's wrong.

Ok who's number two? Well I'll get around to them soon in the next episode.

Estevez

Where do we go after this?

A couple of years ago the American Space Administration decided to stop the space program and stop sending astronauts into space. Was this a good idea or should we be pushing astronauts further into space rather than grounding them indefinitely?

We are by comparison a tiny ball in space. Floating around on our own little orbit among billions of other stars and planets and moons and suns. Do the American Space Administration think that as soon as all the possible inhabitable space on this planet are "inhabited", they can just jump into a space shuttle and fly to the nearest planet and start building? At the rate the earth is being consumed by its inhabitants, it won't be very long before we have completely over populated it. remember we do need more agricultural space the more people we need to feed. So you can't just say "well we have a lot of fields we can build houses on". Because those fields are our sustenance. Medical breakthroughs although amazing, unfortunately are the reason why our planet is being over populated. More people are living to an older age, more babies are being saved in childbirth and infancy, more people are surviving major catastrophes around the world because our response times are faster and the equipment we use is far more advanced. There are numerous reasons as to why our planet will over populate and we are just getting started as far as technology is concerned. I suspect that we are on the brink of some "Huge" scientific breakthroughs in the 21st and 22nd centuries.

We "will" need to seek habitation elsewhere,
 so take this as a kick up the arse all you people in the know and get the exploration stepped up a click from Mars rovers and find a way to put pilots in space in "Crafts" not rockets. Let them decide where they want to go. We have the technology to build them. We can fuel them for further exploration from the International space station (which should have been built on the moon by the way). We are able to produce dehydrated rations that last for years. So food isn't a problem. All we need is a company that's willing to build it and a crew that have no Earthly commitments with the balls to go for it. If we had a method of creating liquid nitrogen that was portable for added fuel whilst in flight and a life support system to generate fresh air to breath.
Or maybe we don't have a government anywhere in the world that's willing to take on the expense. So why not get them all to chip in? After all, they would all benefit from it wouldn't they? Or maybe there's too many people that don't believe that science fiction becomes science fact? Jules Verne would disagree with you.
As do I.
Well here's an update!! I think I said in this post in december 2012 that our "International Space Station should have been built on the moon? Well low and behold, "three Years Later!" We have an anouncement on the TV, that Russia and the european Space Agency or someone, is planning to build a Station on the moon. Why has it taken these so called brilliant scientists so long to realise it's the best idea, when I a mere soldier thought of it years ago? lol Cracks me up to think that even the brightest minds really aren't so switched on as much as we'd think. If you had built the station on the moon years ago "morons" you'd have saved a few hundred billion dollars and you'd already have astronaughts travelling beyond the moon dumb asses......

A poem to think about

Then it Ends

 

The lives we live with dreams so bold

Our secrets hidden and never told

We love, we hate, we muddle through

In hope that someday it all comes true.

 

The love we share it rarely ends

If true, then happiness it sends

To all who find the peace they need

It blossoms and grows from very small seed

 

We take for granted so much in life

The ups and downs, The trouble and strife

We take it and fake it till all is done

Then its over, its finished,

 It's GONE!!

 

Estevez Deep

 



Dating for men of a certain age

The Dilemma

Has anyone used a dating site and had a trouble and stress free experience?
Over the past 6yrs I've tried a few of these sites to no avail. I've come to the conclusion that if you're a single male of a certain age (lets say over 45) and you prefer a slightly younger woman (lets say around 30ish), your chances of success are pretty low.

The Minefield

There are a number of reasons for the Dilemma and each one is a mine thats easily tripped.

The first mine is your age. Obviously there are a few ladies out there that do actually prefer an older man, but they are few and far between. most ladies in their 30's just say they do because they want to see if we really do look after them better than the "young studs". An admirable excuse but rarely permanent, because once we gentlemen get to a certain age, we tend not to put up with too much of the girlyness of a 30yr old in the 21st century. Sexy and vivacious yes, 30yr old schoolgirl no.

Mine number 2 are the gold diggers around the world. Hundreds of women in their 20's and 30's from all over the world, saying they want to be your love. Its tedious when you know that all they want is your email address and evenyually your money. And most of them are so obvious, but mind drainingly depressing.

Then you have the biggest minefield, the men posing as women just so they can have a laugh at the misery of some very lonely and sometimes very frustrated people.

The solution

Well there are a few. can you think of any foolproof ones apart from the one I took and just give up? I'd be interested to hear any.