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It isn't a blessing to wish for someone - anyone - to live in interesting times... yet interesting times are where we're heading.
If you could change how things are going in the world, what would you do?
This week's Action/Adventure Newsletter is all about world events, and how sometimes boring is better.
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Is it just me, or has the world increasingly stopped making sense the last few years? Or, not the world, humanity. Sometimes I get up in the morning and check the news and nothing makes sense. It’s almost like we’ve collectively hopped over to some weird alternate timeline…
I remember reading Sir Terry Pratchett’s Interesting Times and learning that ‘May you live in interesting times’ is really not a nice thing to wish on anyone. Whilst most of us like our lives to contain some excitement every now and then, we tend to enjoy it in small, measured, carefully planned doses. If people fully embraced risk insurance policies would not exist. It’s one thing to long for adventure, and quite another to find oneself in the middle of events that are out of our control.
I know that I’m writing this newsletter from a privileged perspective. I was born in a time and place of relative stability. Sure, there was the Cold War, and talk of nuclear weapons (or the atom bomb, as it was called back then), and I knew that there was conflict in other countries, but I never had to fear an invasion, never experienced the horrors that my grandparents lived through. My great-grandfather helped people escape the Nazis and got caught. He and his family spent time in a camp. Some of my relatives died there. My family on my grandmother’s side hid a wounded American soldier from the Germans and lived in constant fear of being caught. And there was the hunger… I cannot imagine what it must have been like. I hope that I never find out.
When looking back at history humanity has faced countless horrors. Generation after generation would rightfully have felt the same way I do now, wondering why everything’s stopped making sense. You’d think we’d learn. Right? Don’t most of us want a nice, peaceful existence? Don’t we want to get along, and get on with things? Love, raise our families, enjoy our free time, our hobbies, our passions? You can’t do that when times get too interesting. That’s why I prefer for life to be pretty boring, on the whole.
Over the last few years I’ve witnessed the emergence of great division in my country. A division centered around our membership of the European Union – something that wasn’t even an issue for most people until sentiments were stirred up. Brexit happened, the divisions remain, austerity has caused untold misery. We’ve seen an extreme rise in the need for food banks. The wealthy gain ever more wealth, whilst the poorer face having to choose between heating their homes or putting dinner on the table. Then all of us, globally, had to deal with Covid, creating even further division. And instead of getting to enjoy the end of most restrictions, we’ve headed straight into conflict. All the while ignoring the looming challenge of climate change, of course.
Things are becoming a little too interesting for me. How about we get back to being boring? Stop the conflict, end the division. See the other as human beings who all want to go about their lives with as little hassle as possible. Work together to fix what we need to fix and then just get on with what we want to get on with, as long as that doesn’t involve harm to others. We’ve got to realise that we’re stuck on this little planet, together, and that planet’s all that we’ve got. We’ve got to look after it. Be kind to it. Be kind to other people, be kind to ourselves. If we keep on messing up sooner or later we’ll run out of chances to do better.
So let’s do better. We cannot change history, but we can change the future. Let it be nice and boring, filled with peace and health, love and prosperity. It’s about time.
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