The distortions of this world and society are killing me!

[Brittany]

All I can say is to focus on the people you *can* affect. You can be of service to everyone simply be letting love radiate in all your actions, but some people are obviously going to be more responsive to your individual efforts than others. There are some people who are just not at the point on their life path where they are ready to deal with the more complex nuances of spiritual growth. To spend all your time trying to make them understand it like trying to feed a 2-week-old baby a full slab of ribs. Way more effort and mess than it's worth. Save the ribs for people who know how to enjoy them.

When I began my path there were some connections I just had to cut. It isn't that I hate these people or won't help them if they ask, but getting them to a point where we could agree on anything was like trying to drag a donkey somewhere it doesn't want to go. It just isn't going to happen. And as I let them be, I began finding other people who were more than eager to share my path. Like attracts like and all of that. And, in time, some of those impossible people noticed how good I was doing and started coming around a bit themselves, all on their own.

I also stopped watching TV for the most part. Like you, I find most of it intolerable, but there's nothing keeping me from turning it off. As Carla says, "The world is full of cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."