Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, And Happy New Year to everyone as we approach 2022. This is the final episode of 2021, so let’s talk Christmas, the past year, and the year to come.
Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy.
How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. The year is almost over, and what a year it was. But before we even get there, we have Christmas! Everyone’s favorite holiday of spending and being with the people you love. What if you can’t be with the people you love? How do we move forward when we live in a world that has reason to be scared to be outside. So much to talk about, so little time, but here is my gift to you. A new episode of OFS.
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Intro Music By: Kevin McLeod – Acid Jazz
Listening on Winter Solstice 2021
2021, your year in review. Do you have monthly highlights and lowlights? What are your regrets? Your accomplishments?
We are inherently social creatures, shame how our societies reactions to this new disease have torn at the fabric of our already frayed societies. It has tested our individual relationships, strengthened a few, and torn asunder many more.
Unrelated I hear that the Bacchanal at Ceasar has reopened. Thanks Simply Dumplings for doing a video of that. Foodie trip? Start a foodie podcast, I think I have pitched this before?
To judge is to be human, to forgive is divine.
I agree, there is a new form of racism going on. Shame. Multicultural multiethnic societies historically are not common, and they take effort. But don’t many good things take effort?
Tolerances, intolerance. I think I have covered this before in past comments.
On safety, at what point does taking precautions to avoid uncomfortableness, injury, or other mental or physical harmful outcomes, does one point start severely impacting one’s quality of life? At what point does just existing be a life not lived? What makes people cavalier, what makes people cowards? I once read somewhere that heroism is not the absence of fear or absence of knowing danger, but acting in the face of it out of caring for the well being of those around you.
Ah the fallibility that is human nature. Yet it is amazing how far we as a society have come along even with the untold number of horrors which we have been able to inflict upon others and the world around us.
Having free time, having disposable income, I am told by one community which I am involved in, that such things are having privilege. But without such privilege the community could not do what it perceives itself as doing a community service through endless hours of volunteering our time and effort to collaborate on various things. Some say we should be ashame of the alleged privilege, that we should give to others to the point where one no longer had alleged privilege so they too can then hopefully be in a place where they have free time and disposable income so they too can hopefully do acts of community service. There are others within that community who see alleged privileges as tied to history and those with alleged privileges should be looked down upon, admonished, and potentially punished through various means.
May you, and yours, have a healthy and prosperous 2022.