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Her father was a doctor called out on Christmas Eve when she was a little girl and shot by communists. that's why she doesn't celebrate Christmas.
In those days, being sent to the UK in a plane took 7 days to reach. They'd stop over in Cyprus and Rome and the co pilot at the time fancied her and took her round in a cheongsam, she told me looking quite pleased with herself - back then, she said, a boat took 21 days - "nowadays where got people got time for that!"
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But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you’re alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …"
“But people never are alone now,” said Mustapha Mond. “We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it."---
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Remember when we used to be sad and lonely and the only way to get it off our chests was to interrupt the busy life of a friend and talk about it / nothing for an hour or two or if that didn't work to arrange to meet up and back then we genuinely enjoyed meeting up and being around each other - we appreciated the time spent together as a welcome distraction from the everyday miseries of living. We didn't regard the appointment with anxiety, weren't constantly eyeing the quickest route of escape in case things got uncomfortable, checking our phones to see what was going on elsewhere without us. An element of greed perhaps. We used to be able to live in the moment. We used to fill each others' empty cups with happiness. Now we hide them from each other.
We're so busy and focussed on ourselves, our own lives and pursuits. Everything else is a hindrance. Outside involvement is a synonym for something that gets in the way of us getting our own way. We don't have time anymore to call each other up for an hour. Why would anyone bother with that when instant gratification is available for a pittance. When the solution is always within reach, immediately relieved at the swipe of a fingertip. We don't have time anymore to be sad. to be lonely. to be bored. We have no time for bad things. We have no time for good things either. Nowadays where got people got time for that
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As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed-or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
-Luke 10:38-42
1. Maybe we take for granted each other the same way we grow accustomed to flying a billion miles high in the air and arriving halfway round the world in the time it takes you to sleep and wake up ↩
2. "There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi ↩
3. "Are you really crazybusy or are you just a stressed out fear based a-hole" ↩
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