“What’s the point?” 🙁
What’s the point of
🍩Working hard
🍩Facing hardship
🍩Being disappointed
🍩Being hurt
🍩Facing loss, grief and trauma
etc etc etc…
When the world seems to be descending into madness and we are all going to die anyway?
I had a poignant conversation with the quiet sprog, the introverted and thoughtful one this morning as I dropped him off at school.
Yesterday during my Samaritans shift, this also seemed to be things that our caller’s struggle with. 💔
It’s a hard question to answer, especially since the news just seem to prove the point … That there is no point to anything because we appear to be on a one-way road to Utter Chaos and Madness (I shall coin it UCaM™ 😁)
All I could offer sprog this morning was the story of the starfish, which he hadn’t heard before.
Once upon a time there was a beach full of starfish dying in the hot sun. ☀️🔥
A man watched a young boy pick one up and fling it into the ocean.
“What are you doing young man? You’re not going to make a difference. Look at aaaaallll the starfish on this beach that are going to die.”
The boy picked up another one, and with a mighty heave he flung it into the sea.
“I made a difference to this one,” he said.💗
The world can feel cold and cruel and unkind, and it may feel like an impossible task to change the march into UCaM™… But we can make a difference in our little corner of the world.
Our family.
Our friends.
Our colleagues.
Our neighbours and our community. ❤️
One kind act at a time.
One starfish at a time.
And maybe we can slowly infect the world with kindness and goodness and reverse what looks like a slow march into madness.
Anyway I was off to French Touch Dreamin’ so I told sprog I’d see him later this week. I wonder if I left him with some things to chew on… Or maybe he’s just thinking about his poor mum’s descend into her own brand of 🐄 madness 😅
Ah well, what’s the point of being a parent when I can’t mangle story tales and current events and starfish in one morning during school drop off?!
But I do hope he’ll feel a bit more hopeful about the world that we live in. Life is about making a difference to those around us.
Yes we are going to die anyway, why not have fun and make it a good one? ❤️