As I listened to someone else talking this morning, I was thinking along the same lines and then as my mind is inclined to do go off at tangents and metaphors. I pondered the nature of our society and then the smaller sub-groups within it. I was thinking that a lot of behaviour is very individualistic and even selfish (perhaps that's the true nature of man). Our consumer, individualistic, no respecter of authority society is driven in a metaphorical way by being receivers - we get, we watch, we don't get that involved. But then how to have a better, is to transmit as well as receive - which is a rephrasing of a well-know and significant statement.

If individuals are more often that not receivers then who or what are the transmitters? Are they the movers and shakers, the trend setters, the influential people in our society? For many it seems to be the celebrities - but I don't follow that - more often than not - it is in my nature to be the opposite! Just perverse I suppose. But I have my influencers - so living some memories and some written. Maybe we all re-transmit what we receive - but the danger is that we lose some stuff in this process - we may add our own perspectives - but what sort of transmitters are we? Though many people do not respect authority - they give authority to their influencers - implicitly by letting them shape their lives, behaviour and thoughts.

We should all be transmitting from ourselves and checking to what do we give authority. We should also do as much transmitting as we receive. We're not dumb radios that merely reproduce what we have received - we are walkie-talkies (hmm...) that broadcast as well as receive. Though of course, my metaphor shows that it takes less energy to receive than to transmit.

What I need to do is make sure that the signals I send are a) good b) true c) honest and d) positive wherever possible.

I'll stop now before I overuse my metaphor.