Long-term exposure can have us wishing for the opposite
or wear down sensibility until we become desensitised
Too hot in the sun, we crave for the shade
Sitting too long, we would prefer to stand
Watching so much violence ignites our rage,
harming those we love, sometimes strangers
Find a happier medium, balance is more sensible
Seek out more positive things to do with our time
Turn off the news as it can trigger depression
Porn and violence leads to dismal oppression
The company we keep whether on devices or
in person sets the trend for the energy it evokes
Aggression and violence repels, fear is not healthy
Kind gentleness attracts, makes others comfortable!
word of the day – Exposure
Very well written
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I agree kate! very much so! ❤
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No more needs saying really… 🙂
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So true, great message in this poem.
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Wonderful messages Kate.
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You said it beautifully with an apt message!
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Yes, the emotional balance is the necessity of life and excess of anything can tip off the scale. Though it is hard to strive but awareness is the first step towards it.
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Such important truth! We really do have control over some of things that can cause us strife, so as you said so wisely, we need to control those things and be involved in much better things! 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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yes directing our energy to useful rather than harmful things brings much happier results …
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Wise words, Kate! Balance is absolutely necessary.
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I started watching a show that was to a series I used to watch… but because it was too violent I told my hubby I didn’t want to watch it anymore. I don’t like it when characters who are normally helpful and kind are turned into monsters.
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I agree, when the violence escalates I switch off!
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Truth or dare?
Truth.
OK, I enjoy watching the occasional Eastwood or Bond movie. No point in denying it. Hey, I’m a guy.
Still, much as I enjoy the experience, the soul thirsts for compensation afterwards, maybe in cooking, perhaps in reading, always in Mozart.
After all, violence’s provocations without a creative antidote in corrosive. Unrelieved, it’s intellectually deadening too, as it limits one’s horizons and gives expression to only the most primitive of impulses.
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ooh well said Keith … great antidote!
Watch some but neutralise it immediately, sounds very healthy 🙂
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Sweet and sour. And I do love me Chinese food.
(Why does everything have to be about food with me?)
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lol any girl would have a tough job competing with that 😎
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