Witch in a broom factory

Pumpkins on our front porch step

Have you seen the GEICO commercial with the giggling witch flying laps around the broom factory? To me,  GEICO has the coolest commercials on TV, the Gecko and Max, the pig, now the witch, proof  that creativity still thrives.  Today, direction dominates many people, adults who cannot grow up, adults who merely repeat what they have heard or read without any personal anylsis.  Facebook is prolific with those who merely copy and display something as theirs.  The Internet facilitates this merely download a photo or saying and share it,with a few finger clicks.  How creative is that?  How much or little thinking is involved?  It is different from noticing something, enjoying, and  sharing occasionally.   I enjoy my time at Facebook,  as a way to communicate with  friends and family all over the country and world.  While there I notice this odd behavioral display which proliferates the spread of the ever increasing and, to me, annoying Facebook applications.  Does any one think about what they are doing there?   Is thinking ability suspended or erased by the time in front of the computer screen?   

I know dependent  adults  who require excessive direction, prompting, coaching even codgering. It is one thing when they are elderly such as my MIL, but it is another for clingy adults who cannot function alone.   I wonder where they have set their brains amidst the straw in their minds, or did they ever have much to begin with?  I  know parents who cripple their children with dependency, I see it in our family.  Mature young adults who remain attached to mommy and daddy's shoe laces and do not or cannot  form their own friendships outside the home.  

It is said use it or lose it and that applies to thinking and reasoning ability.   Sometimes the control is by another in their household or sometimes it is by religions.   I know people who might as well have feathers and wings and be colorful parrots for their lack of ability to reason or think, all they do is mimic.  Perhaps the political season exaggerates this or perhaps that is the nature of Facebook junkies.  Whatever is happening it nourishes plenty of opportunity for those who would control others to gain an edge; sometimes I worry that we have become lemming people.  To me the witch giggling on her laps shows individuality, no one has to ride along with her.  She is enjoying herself absolutely and that is an ability everyone needs. What a blessing, to be comfortable in your own skin, to enjoy your own company such that you are not desperate for constant companionship.   I am not talking about becoming a hermit, or a recluse, a socially with drawn misfit, but about having inner esteem and balance.  What a gift, to be as happy as a witch in a broom factory!  Enjoy the flight, there is no other seat on the broom.