Collarspace

I am not into making any special claims for who I am or what I can do, as simple as that..smile. I am into humility despite being Dom - and the simpler things of life. I believe that when people come together the easiest and best thing they can do is to interact on a civil curious level, without judgement and recriminations - makes life so much easier!

I love this line from a book I am currently reading - "Sane New World" by Ruby Wax - SUCH WISE WORDS:

" We are slaves to our busy - ness, with an unstoppable urge for wonga, recognition, more CM messages, you name it we wish for it. The problem is that only in the last 100 years have humans lived with such plenitude, We are all - humanity - all of us not equipped for the 21st Century - It's too hard, too fast, it's too full of fear, we just don't have the capacity to absorb. Evolution didn't prepare us for this . You could say that multi-tasking has driven us mad ( it was never humanly possible anyway) - like leaving too may windows open on your computer , eventually it will crash. It's hard enough to keep up with who is bombing whom, so we have no room to understand our emotional landscapes - our hearts bleed because we hear of a beached whale, while the next minute we are baying for blood because someone has taken our place in the shopping queue or slighted us online"

yes online - on twitter - on facebook, and dare I say it..on Collar Me? Yes I dare!

Oh this one is a cracker too, from Carl Sagan- the Pale Blue Dot - describing a photo taken of Earth from the Voyager spacecraft 500 million miles away:

Pale Blue Dot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Another brilliant summary of life and the human condition..