Why now

Recently I had a minor disaster in my professional life. I have some commercial sites which were making me a little money and I was hopeful would in time grow into a reasonable stream of income. I saw a MySQL on my server (hosting more than twenty blogs) which I could not understand why it was there. I deleted it without getting a backup first and once I messed it up (by writing over the database with a new one with same name) I realized that my twenty commercial blogs were running on that database and were destroyed.
I phoned my hosting company, searched all over my backups and so on. Four hours later I realized I had lost three months of blog work (about three hundred hours). OK I had two choices. I could freeze and be paralyzed or I could look at this as an opportunity to redo everything and do it better since I had learned a few things in the meanwhile. I chose the second positive choice and life has been wonderful since then.

OK I think the world is pretty messed up just now with wars everywhere (there's Congo, Sudan, and many more in Africa we have forgotten about), environmental disasters loom (did you know there's huge amounts of arsenic in the Baltic sea encased in concrete for more than fifty years and if the ever deteriorating concrete ever breaks much marine life in Atlantic would die), and the economic effects of wrong headed globalization and state supported financialism (as opposed to capitalism where capital would make goods financialism is financial entities making super rich richer without adding a single product to the world - hence the current collapse)....

OK so the planet is undergoing a minor (or perhaps major) disaster and the choice is between giving up (after all I'm a single individual) or taking action. So what can you do?

• Be kind to your loved ones. Bring peace to the world one person at a time.
• As one of my spirituality teachers said, "Kill your enemies by making them your friends."
• Be forgiving to all. Somehow if we send love out the world becomes a better place.
• Be kind to yourself and smile a lot. Smiling is magical and makes you feel better no matter how you feel at the moment
• Have hope that ultimately things will get better. Albert Einstein once said that one of the most important spiritual questions is, "Is the universe a friendly place?" His answer was that he believed it is a freindly universe and I think he was right.