3:00 a.m. and I find myself suddenly wide awake.
I can’t believe my country is killing innocent people in drone strikes in countries with which we are not even at war.
13 years old and he was killed by a cop for playing with a realistic-looking toy gun.
Running toward the cops for help, the black athlete was shot dead. The crime? I guess RWB, i.e. running while black.
Asking for help at the front door after an accident with her car, she was shot dead by the homeowner. The crime? I guess it must have been AFHWNW. i.e., asking for help while not white.
This doesn’t feel like the land of the free I believed in as a child. And now folks would prefer to provoke war with Iran rather than press for diplomacy.
Nope: I’ve got to stop these thoughts. Get myself a cup of warm almond milk and a handful of raw cashews. Go back to bed. Read articles in Psychotherapy Today – ways to be helpful in healing myself and others.
Get sleepy. Go back to sleep.
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chilling stories.More and more paranoid, more and more seeing “other” and enemies –
I felt relieved when you described how you found a way to comfort and calm yourself – it also reminded me of how often I have such paranoid thoughts – and how effective it is for me in my practice to just know that such thoughts belong to a fear-thought system, and are not True
Would that the events themselves were not true. Thanks for the shared relief.
Those thoughts at 3am are certainly not conducive to sleep. It is scary how things are happening in the world. I tend to put my blinkers on and try not to focus on them too much because I often cry when I watch the news. I actually blogged about this once (Horror Movies).
I hope you got back to sleep. 🙂
Yes indeed, thanks. Warm almond milk, raw almonds, and reading positive approaches to helping others were conducive to rest.
Yes I did. Thanks.
that is terrible!
Well, yes. But the warm almond milk, raw almonds, and subsequent sleep were not awful. Thanks for commenting.
Have to try that warm almond milk. recipe?
What a delightful question — like trading recipes over a cup of afternoon coffee. But I’m sad to say it’s not an exciting recipe. It just comes from the grocery shelf in the U.S. — Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, vanilla flavored. I buy the unsweetened. Actually, it comes in two varieties. One in the refrigerator section – the other right off the shelf in the soy milk section. The advantage of the latter is that it lasts forever without refrigeration. (Well, almost.) But, here’s the recipe part – it’s best if you stir in some cinnamon after it’s warmed.
So, please join me. You don’t have to wait for a 3:00 a.m. awakening.
Smiles
Haven’t found it in shelves here yet – but I will search the web for a recipe:)
I think you have to beat a zillion raw almonds to smithereens.
I try not to think about it but it creeps in at unexpected times.
It’s probably not good to put my head in the sand, but I often don’t listen to the news. I find that I sleep better at night.
Yes, it is a struggle between protecting ourselves and being aware enough to protect our values. One can take only so much of the bad news.