Dear Klast:

Good to receive another post from you, thank you!

“Have you tried sleep aids like Ashwagandha, or Melatonin?“- I tried melatonin and other over the counter/ herbal aids but they didn’t make a difference.

“Everything in life should be done on a case by case basis, but power and greed stop it from happening“- yes: power, greed and expediency. Online definitions: “the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral, The fact that an action is useful or necessary for a particular purpose, although it may not be fair or right”.

One form of expediency on a personal level is a person’s prejudices against groups of people: against short people, overweight people, handicapped people..  men, women, politically conservative people, politically liberal people, people of a particular race, etc. I want to fix my own personal prejudices.

I am thinking of the national and international misuse of power being on the economical-political level, and on the familial- individual level: a parent’s misuse of power against a child leading to a politician’s misuse of power against millions of people.

“knowledge is power“- I think that at times, in some contexts, denial is power. For example, when a person accomplishes the (previously considered/ known to be) impossible. Or when knowledge is too scary for a particular person to endure.

“Che sera sera ‘What will be, will be’. Worrying about something outside anyone’s control… is bad for mental health which is in turn bad for physical health“- very well said. I want to keep this in mind.

“If others reject you for the situation you are in, they were never worthy of you in the first place“- I don’t want to reject others for the situations they are in. I will reject some for how they respond to the situations they are in. I need not respond to a bad situation by creating a bad situation for another, or worsening another’s existing bad situation.

“Most people in my situation end up splitting from their partner because they start putting up emotional walls that push the partner away… I was aware of this so I made sure I didn’t. To this day we are over 20 years strong“- congratulations for 20 years strong, and a very good point!

“Animals know stuff about the world around us that we cant explain, yet. Evacuating the area before natural disasters…“- I want to read from the links you provided and respond further Mon morning (it is Sun morning here).

anita