drink water and mind your business

Last evening I was unaware that my friend was visiting us when he was. I was in another part of the house when I decided to venture into the kitchen. For a split second I saw only his shirt and my mind instantly thought of my fatther. My mind literally went into a tailspin in a fraction of a second, trying to reconcile the fact that it was clearly not my dad sitting in his usual place. It was so weird.I experienced 'cognative dissonance'I knew that it could not be my dad, knew that he is not alive, yet wanted to think about it nonetheless.My heart was racing while my mind was acknowledging who was actually sitting in the chair. What a moment. Recently I have actually been considering the possibiities of something or thngs coming our way in the near future dealing with us as a world not knowing the possibilities until it happens....like teleportation or invisibility...both absolutely impossible. But then, equally, every time a step is taken forward , many are taken back. Who could have foreseen the situation between Russia and Ukraine right now? Situatoins like that one make you wonder about the working of the world. What else is being produced here? Who is benefiting as people lose their lives, lives lost every moment of every day.