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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Youthful Aging

When I was young I never thought about the end of it all. Life was lived for the minute. I did things just for the sheer personal gratitude and for the fun excitement that it brought.

When you are young you rarely think of the consequences of your behavior or how it effects other people. There is rarely any deliberate rebellion. Rebellion is just a sub- conscience reaction to things. A need to keep boredom at bay.

As you grow older spontaneity is a little less frequent. Life does not allow for the fun little “do for yourself” moments. Life is filled with the consequences and reminders of them. Not only do you not have the energy for rebelliousness, you just can’t find the time.

If you do something rebellious when you are older you are fully aware of what you are doing and how it will effect others.. And most of the time that is why you do it.. Of course that is unless you are intoxicated by some means. Then, of course, you are just plain not thinking at all.

With age comes responsibilities.. (how I yearn for youthful rebellion sometimes) Those “go out and get into mischief days” turn to things like eating a really large helping of your favorite ice cream when you know you shouldn’t have any at all or some other self destructive behavior. After all you don’t want to hurt anyone else. Well, most of the time anyway..

Another one of the things you never think about when you are young is your health. You don’t think about the massive amounts of alcohol you drink at a party as doing damage to your liver. Or the cigarette you smoke with your friends damaging your lungs or heart. You may know of those things but you really don’t think too much about it.

Women wear high heals that are wearing out your heal tendons and apply makeup to their youthful colorful complexions in the name of beauty and all that natural color disappears. . Many enjoy the laying out in the sun for hours with girlfriends getting a tan. Oops if you get a sun burn. It peels and heals and all is well again. You don’t think about a new freckle as a possible melanoma

You don’t think your music is too loud and you turn up your favorite songs a little more or opt for the concert seats right in front of the bands speaker towers at a concert.

Youthfulness is just naive about what the future holds.. After all who thinks they are going to be 50 years old when they are a kid.. I am sure I am not alone in thinking I would never live to get old.

Strangely enough like most everyone else I have gotten older. I am now starting to face the realities and consequences of my youth..

Nope, I can no longer drink like I use to.. The hangovers just about kill me.. Staying up all night, sleeping for 2 hours and doing it again is not even a second thought anymore. I know it is not going to happen.

I notice I am watching the lips of people I am speaking with more often to make up for the words I can’t hear as well due to all that music that wasn’t that loud in my past. That works pretty well only now my vision is getting a bit blurry too. So I have to read their lips from a little distance away.

When I get a bit of heart burn or strain a muscle in my arm and feel a bit of pain I start worrying is this what a heart attack is.. Should I go to the doctor and get checked out.. Is this the beginning of the end. Now when I get clumsy and fall on my knees I wonder are they going to heal this time or is the pain going to turn into arthritis and last for the remainder of my life.

I do have some really cool stuff now that I am older.. I have some nice uncool bills to go with them. I actually care if they get paid, more scary, I worry about them being paid on time. I never used to think about it as I played the bill collectors lottery when I was younger. Putting all the bills in a hat and pulling to see which one got paid. (You got me the shut off notice first.. Congratulations you’re the new winner of this months Bill Collectors Lottery!!)

I realize now that there is a future and am trying to save money for it. Which seems a bit fruitless most of the time.. There is always some expense waiting for me to save up a little money for the future, and takes me back back to start over again.

If find myself thinking of my high school friends and think about calling them up.. For some reasn I think they will remember me and everything will be just as it was.. Though it has been almost 30 years since high school.. Yeech 30 years.. Weird, I don’t feel at all like it has been that long.. It feels like only a couple years ago I was bar hopping and dancing all night going to concerts and baseball games. Not sleeping for days on end.

My mind is as sharp if not more so now than it was then.. But my body… I look in the mirror and wonder who that stranger is with the lines forming around the eyes and with the grey hairs popping up above and beyond all the rest as if to shout out. “You’re getting older stand up and be proud!”.

I find myself sitting back lost in the “I remember when”s, that I keep in silent sanctuary. What a youthful wild hell-cat I used to be..

Just to be spontaneous I decided to color my hair to get rid of those “hey look at me” greys. and buy a new outfit, some new shoes call up a few friends and go out to the local hot spot have a drink and do a bit of ‘Born to Be Wild’ dancing. But since I am old enough to know the consequences of such behavior I chose a different route.

I did color my hair, but I opted to save some money and stick with my comfortable jeans and tennis shoes; stay home and drink a couple glasses of wine. I know my friends will be too busy raising their families to go out and have a drink anyway. I think I will be rebellious and not answer the phone when it rings and for something really spontaneous, I think I might just call it an early night and pass on all my favorite commercials on TV and go to bed early.. I am kind of tired again tonight…

I hope I’m not getting sick *wink*