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Greenwald Hypes 'Spectacular Multicolored Fireworks' for a Finale, Will Reveal Names of NSA 'Victims'

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A Mom Anon5/27/2014 5:21:54 am PDT

re: #305 Justanotherhuman

I think computers and their spin offs (tablets, phones, etc, even TV, how and what we watch has changed too) have changed our brains. Literally. Not sure if it’s a permanent thing, because we can unplug and regroup and regain our inborn patience, focus and curiosity. It’s almost like those things do our thinking for us to some degree and so our brains change and become lazy, like muscles do if we’re idle for long periods of time. I notice it in myself, if I am not physically active or outdoors away from “stuff”, I get cranky, sad, listless, anxious. Put me in the garden or on a walk, it goes away.

I’ve talked to some women my age and a bit older (mid 50s-mis 60s) that I’ve fallen out of contact with over the last couple months (summers are busy times) and all of them told me in separate conversations that they are having trouble falling and staying asleep, feeling anxious for no major reasons, feeling scared about their lives (and with the exception of me, these women all have money, plenty and then some for retirement, pensions etc- so they have financial security-one woman and her husband literally have half a million dollars in the bank, not including investments and the like ), and have a sense that “something is wrong” but can’t quite put their finger on what that something is. Me too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. It’s not, in my case at least, a fear of the world changing, that is what life is, but more of a HOW it’s changing. There’s a sense of underlying anxiety, I just think most people busy themselves so much they can’t feel it.

Or maybe it’s just me and my friends, lol. I wish we could figure out more ways to come together in our communities that didn’t involve religion and politics, but more commonalities, maybe it would help some. I don’t know.