the natatorium in oahu, honolulu. sitting abandoned and in disrepair.

longest global peace, less murders, fewer starving,,,as well as wars and insecure borders and countries, disease, over population, is it a good place or not? depending on your day, time in your life and situation it is like the opening of the famous charles dickens book tales of two cities:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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hard to determine. from one perspective, it is all going very well or if it all falling apart. in its natural state, thing fall apart. we do our best to keep these things from happening. we nurture, we support and i think we find ways to help one another. we start with ourselves, then our family, after a certain level we then go on to supporting others. 

the buddhist say that life is suffering. that when you cling to anything more suffering is caused. that you must be accepting to the way things are. to not hold on. how one can do this in life is hard to understand and grasp since so many things in life automatically create that grasp on holding on.