Don’t Let Your Mind Be a Garbage Dump

~ humoringthegoddess

A funny thing happened when I stopped getting (my version of) obsessed with the day-to-day antics of politics.

I felt better.

I’m not really into politics … I know how things work and how they affect me. I have thoughts and opinions and do what I can to promote my version of harmony and fair play. 

I don’t even know how I let myself get so involved.

To me, political rhetoric is like potato chips…. you can’t eat/ listen to just one. Conversations and quotes get so wild and carried away that you have no idea where it’s all coming from. And, just like potato chips, you can’t eat/listen to just one.

It’s kinda like Facebook or Reddit. Some aren’t satisfied just presenting different opinions. They have to present or respond in a confrontational or obnoxious way, guaranteed to rattle quite a few brains and anger even more. Here in the good ‘ol U. S. of A., politicians are not satisfied to merely respond or accuse. It’s now a case of making up stories and ignoring truths. It’s rude and ignorant and downright mean.

I am a person who hates rude and ignorant and mean. And the more I read the more upset I get. 

I’ve gotta find a way to stop listening and reacting to this verbal trash. It’s not good for my blood pressure nor my good nature. It’s all nonsense anyway, spoken to get a reaction. 

MY reaction.

I think the key to a longer, healthy life is to stop listening to garbage. Garbage rhetoric, garbage television, garbage podcasts. Not just in the world of politics, but in all world interactions. It does nothing but pump us up into a mist of brainlessness.

There is not much you can do to change the world. One against a billion are not great odds. Vote, yes. Explain, yes. Then move on.

I’m not saying spend your spare time watching documentaries and reading literary fiction. What I am saying is spend your spare time learning something positive. Learning and sharing. Something that doesn’t hurt other people. Something that makes your life easier and happier. Or makes someone else’s life easier and happier. Something that helps you understand or create or forgive.

As Joyce Meyer once said, “Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.”

I hear ya.

 

 

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I am a writer of fantasy fiction that often surrounds middle-aged women. I am a married mother of two and granny to three, a BoHo Chic kinda gal. I am recently retired and busier than when I worked 9-5. But writing and blogging is my main game.

7 thoughts on “Don’t Let Your Mind Be a Garbage Dump”

  1. Amen, sister. ‘Garbage in – garbage out’ is no way to live or raise children, and it ruins/spoils/devalues life. And we do it to ourselves!

    Just because you are “free”or just because you “can” does in no way equate with what you no “should” or “should not” get involved with. At best, if you spend 2-8 hours a day receiving trash into your brain from social and other media, can you really expect to end up happier? smarter? more productive? Will the world be a better place for your having wasted that part of your life instead of going out and actually having a life?

    Everyone has to make choices about their own lives. I, for one, choose to be positive, resulting in making choices to protect myself from negativity and trash if I can not be in a position to be helpful in a given situation. I don’t want “Bored to death” on my gravestone; I want “Made a difference. ” (End of rant.)

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    1. Not a rant — a sharing the truth! There is so much junk out there, and advertisers and others take advantage by bombarding, pushing, shoving their nonsense into your face 24-7. Famous people can’t even date without someone writing something nasty or catty about them. And every major issue (not just politics) always has somebody saying “conspiracy” or “justice.” I just read yesterday that there are some politicians that think that the government is using weather modification to influence the paths of hurricanes and Milton and Helene were weather weapons.

      Enough said.

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  2. I gave up listening to the garbage a long time ago. I vote, do the work for my candidate, write postcards, have a sign in front of my house and I never listen to the idiot for any reason at all.

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