How do I feel?

What I believe is greatly influenced about what I feel. Thoughts and words express our perceptions which are greatly influenced by our emotions.

I suffer from bouts of insomnia for as long as 10 minutes and occasionally wake up too soon to get up in winter.

These are some of the thoughts that exuded from my foggy brain this morning:

• How do we address the erosion of western values by the woke generation, some of whom are our own kith and kin?
• How did I learn to feel and think the way I do?
• What was the world like when I learned to think and articulate what I believe in?
• What do I believe in?

It gets quite difficult and foggy, very quickly

Coincidentally, someone posted this on Facebook recently:

I am God … I think therefore I am.. I am a biological thinking intelligent machine… I can create my own reality.

I believe we are mostly good, but that experiences mould us:

• There are some bad and weak people who choose to follow their own ways, despite knowing better ways.
• We are easily distracted and tempted; self-discipline is difficult, but rewarding.
• We are also easily misled and pride rules our redemption.
• We forget that emotion guides every choice and harnesses intellect, so that it becomes imperfect..

I started life in Africa, as everything did apparently.  That history was a great place to learn values and witness injustices.

• Discrimination based on race, gender, ability and history is wrong.
• We have a duty to stand by our family and friends.
• We pay the State to serve us and we must also serve the State in times of need. But we cannot blindly follow the State.

Hmm! That should be enough for you to chew on.

I do not doubt that there will be little response to these humdrum words – that usually only comes after blogs about birds and flowers and such like.