What to do?

What to do?

Our world seems to be in a bit of a mess, these days. That’s what the major newspapers and their correspondents are telling us anyway – over and over again.
I read all the “heavy” bits of “The Australian” yesterday, and emerged under a fairly large cloud of pessimism.
In the US, for instance, lame-duck resident Bush is in a heap of trouble. As the “disaster” he launched starts to divide his own nation, he has no way of withdrawing his troops with honour.
In Europe, we learn that Putin’s Russia has withdrawn from the Euro arms pact, and that brings back memories of the “Cold War” days for most of us.
At home, the long, long drought might be fading, but there’s still trouble enough. Did you ever imagine that some of those whose families came here to escape terror would wish to kill and main in Australia? Then you might well want to consider the “bikie” gangs, and the water shortage, and the impending “global warming” as on the debit side of life in 2007.
How should we individuals react to the over-supply of bad news, I wonder?
There’s not much point, it seems to me, in writing letters (even to “The Australian). “Prayer “ seems a sensible option for those who believe it has, or might have, power.
We can’t afford to send any more troops to Iraq (or Afghanistan for that matter), and we’re not internationally important enough to persuade Mr Putin to behave, or inspire President Bush toward a cure for his problems.
We might, perhaps, reflect that life on Earth has continued over many crises over the millennia and that. in the overall picture, we humans are all relatively insignificant.
Myself ? - I think I might go back to bed, for now.