No one escapes that which is inevitable. -Dreamer

Sometimes I look at things as if it is for the last time. The colors of the trees the clouds in the sky.  My dog as he lays innocent on the floor carefree of the world around him.  I like to look at the bees as they flit amongst the sage and the flowers that linger a bit longer than they should upon a stem.

I just like to enjoy the views around me as if for the last time.  The appreciation of what is right now.  Because that is all we are guaranteed in life.  The right now.  In the blink of an eye every thing can change.  In the blink of an eye so quick and so forever changed.

It may seem like a horrible way to look at things. But not to me.  It lets me appreciate them more.  The colors the smells,  the sounds.  All that the senses can comprehend.  Saving them up for a ‘what if’ day.   The day I open  my eyes and can no longer see.  A day when terror strikes us again and the world is forever changed.  A day when something, dearly loved, no longer exists in this world.

Enjoying the ‘what is’ make the ‘what if’s’ fade away.  Knowing I have loved and enjoyed all that is there to offer there are no what if’s or what could have beens.. only ‘what is” and what is is what you make of it.  The here and now can be a beautiful; place to be if you just take the time to look. enjoy and comprehend the reality of what is around you.  That each way you look at something is a choice you make.  A choice you can change.

You never know what tomorrow will being, if anything. Never take for granted what is right now.  Enjoy it. Bask in it. Embrace it.  For today, could be the last time you see things the way they are now…

State Of The Union

The state of the union is a mess.

That being said people are really all basically the same, as we always were. The government has gone a little towards madness. Power and money corrupts absolutely and the longer a person is in the government it seems the further from the people they get.

The “normal person” doesn’t care about skin color, sexual choices or how someone’s eccentricities make them different.

Over the years people have learned to accept people as they are. If you don’t like someone don’t go around them. If they are not what you want to be around you stay away.

You don’t force people to have to say what they like and don’t like. You don’t force people to be raciest, (or any of the other big fancy words they choose to use these days) if they don’t conform to a narrative.

I don’t care what color skin a person has, what a person does in their bedroom, or how they want to dress. Yeah, I may give them a second look if they wear something that screams “Hey look at me I am different” But don’t fault me for doing it. I’m not a bad person for noticing the difference. I am not judging them. Perhaps I am just enjoying the view that someone wanted to peacock. People stand by their own merit of behavior, in my book.

But when it comes to try to force me to look or to allow people who want to peacock special privilege I draw a personal line. But they deserve the same respect as they would give to me.

People are different. It would really be a boring world if we were all the same. I like the differences. There is a lot to be learned about them if we so choose to do so. Though we might find how same we really are underneath.

Lines should be drawn when it comes to forcing it on our children. Schools are there to teach reading writing and arithmetic. They are there to teach music and art and sports. How to get along. How to make informed choices, not to change a persons gender at an age when a child has no idea who they are or want to be.

How many of you grew up to be the person you thought you wanted to be. when you were a kid. I am guessing not too many. Unless you wanted to be a rockstar… J/k

This sort of stuff doesn’t need to be in our schools. I am not against the “Our body’s are changing movie” that we used to have in school that prepared us for puberty changes. It was a bit uncomfortable, and at that time seemed a bit weird, even back then. They didn’t need to teach us about fetishes and sexual choices. Just that our bodies were changing. Those choices were left for when we got older and discovered them ourselves. It would be a choice we could make on our own when the right time came.

Granted kids today are not like they were when I was a kid. But we are still the same human beings we always were. Things we choose to do are different. Technology is different, TV is different. And we’ve came a long way from Pac-man and Tank Command. It changed things about our kids. But we are all still human and learn from our experiences and who we meet in life along the way. But kids have be be taught to make choices, not that things are to be chosen for them. How to engage with other people. And how to respect the rights of others.

The government has overstepped it’s boundaries when it started en-doctoring our children with fetish behaviors. And that is what a lot of it is, if you want to admit it or not. They are stealing away our children’s childhood forcing adult-isms on them.

All the while their grades are failing and they are learning that they don’t have to listen to their parents or respect anything including the  contracts they sign to get more en-indoctrinated learning.

It’s time to step back away from the government and realize that is not who we are. That what they, who have stepped so far away from “the people” believe, is not what we stand for and believe. We don’t need to be told what to to do. As adults we should be able to make those choices for ourselves and face the consequences of our choices.

Don’t tell us who and what we can be. Just let us be. We can figure that our for ourselves… Our children can figure it out for themselves when the correct time comes.

We are not a stupid people. Some of us might be ignorant, or unobservant, just plain don’t care or too overworked to even think about it.

But given a choice I am sure we would all like to live and let live. Hate takes too much energy we could use for more useful things. Like helping each other. Caring about our elders. Respecting our differences, not to mention respecting ourselves.

We should be able to respect the people we elect to office to understand they are not our keepers. They should respect us and care for our ways of life. Not try to change and morph them into something we cannot sustain or are not ready for as a people. They should not lie to us, especially to divide us, as a people of differences.

Our governmental representatives, should live by the rules they make. No, they are not above the law though they act like they are.

There used to be laws about defamation of character, slander and libel. These seem to have just been forgotten or lost somewhere along the line for the ruling class. I would sure like to see them come back. I am sick of the lies, and the careless-ness of these things.

I guess I will end this rambling thought process with a few old sayings that come to mind,

– united we stand, divided we fall
– divide and conquer
– …and justice for all.
– a house divided against itself cannot stand
– a drowning man will clutch at a straw
– a poor workman always blames his tools
– absolute power corrupts absolutely
– judge not, that ye be judged
– never judge a book by its cover
– actions speak louder than words
– no one can make you feel inferior without your consent
– different strokes for different folks
– beggars should not be choosers
– cheaters never win and winner never cheat
– the bigger they are. the harder they fall
-Do onto others as you would have them do to you
– to each to their own
– it takes all sorts to make a world
– empty vessels make the most noise
– enough is enough
– fight the good fight
– God helps those who help themselves
– honesty is the best policy
– one law for the rich and another law for the poor
– let them eat cake
– quid pro quo
– There’s no such things as a free lunch

– Don’t shoot the messenger 😉

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