Forgetful

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The world today is a forgetful one...
The times when stories were committed to memory, and being retold to younger generations have faded into history. Nowadays we find our stories in the newscasts on TV. As we sit and watch the evening news we may comment to each other ~ talk about whatever news item is ‘hot’ at that instant ~  only to move on with our lives and forget about it the next day...

The old stories that were filled with mythical creatures, the parables through which we were taught the morals and (spiritual) insights of our parents and grandparents have been replaced by factual stories. And as the old stories were culture-specific ~ the modern day factual stories are coming from all over the world. It doesn’t matter where something is happening, if it is newsworthy ~ if it is story-material ~ we are certain to see it on TV within hours of it happening.
This way, we are told new and different stories every day, leaving us no time ~ even if we had the desire to do so ~ to ponder any one story long enough to permit it to become a story we can remember...
In the midst of the multitude of stories we are bombarded with each day, we tend to forget them just as quickly as they were brought to us.

Consequently, there are less and less stories that we would want to ~ or even are able to ~ remember so we can tell them to our grandchildren.

With the continuous need for new stories, for new input, we may find ourselves less and less reacting to them. Let’s face it, there are stories that we may not feel we want to remember for the rest of our lives, yet in that moment the action we can take now that we know the story can make a huge difference for those who are involved.
Whether our action is a spiritual action like prayer, meditation, or sending Light to those that are in the midst of that specific story ~ or send actual help through donations or even volunteering; through our actions we can make a difference. Through our actions we can become a part of it. Through our actions that specific story can become part of our experience...
And once that has happened, we are a lot more likely to remember!

Still, even with those stories that affect the world as they happen ~ and even may affect the world for years to come ~ are stories we talk about around the dinner table. We follow them on the news for a couple of days. And then, as soon as something else happens in a different part of the world, as soon as a different story is being told to us, we forget about the earlier story...
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