A 5.8 earthquake shakes Charlotte, Hurricane Irene’s marching band of wild winds and rain continues to gain ground on our unprotected boarders, the unemployment rate doesn’t require Viagra but word from the hood shows an increase in little blue pill use to get housing sales back up.
And what’s up with Humpty Dumpty holding out until the owners of the once giant wall in New York City stop investing in white wired fences picked up at Wal-Mart for 99 cents?
In the age of taking multi-tasking to a professional level, the escape for 99.8% of the working force is to complain about life outside the four walls that consume more time than vigorous teens exploring their options as to why giving into peer pressure is the answer. After all, their parents do it everyday to score dinky dollars attached to never enough insurance.
Have you noticed television newscasts are no longer hosted by the next top model? Viewers want weather on the ones not crime rate statistics. Its ok to have thirty students in a single class room and getting someplace in life needs no mentor but rather the ambition to be anywhere but here.
No wonder you feel alone at work! With thoughts like this constantly floating across the beautiful landscape who needs another Freddy Kruger movie when the nightmare is on Main Street?
How are we going to explain this postcard to your grandchildren?
When Grandma Bakken and Grandpa Dobrenz painted the trials and tribulations of The Great Depression their words held forever the passion of a solid society that refused to believe America was over.
Quietly look around the space you take up and peacefully identify how many inhabitants would rather place their stained fingertips on control alt delete and push then get their hands and feet dirty mending the wings of this once mighty bear?
Could Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Franklyn Roosevelt or George Washington save us?
Let’s get one thing straight…none of them saved America. They, the people did. The soils to which we place our dreams on hourly bled the blood of desire, determination, loyalty and perseverance. Communities weren’t faceless Face Book links or one hundred forty two characters tweeted across purple mountains majesty. There is no America in the minds of social networking; it’s the next frontier Captain Kirk constantly guided his Enterprise toward.
The term: it’s a small world has become the expected reality.
Why should I travel back home to Montana to visit family when it’s much easier and cheaper to Skype and or tap thoughts into a flat screen manmade device? The funeral of the future will be a room full of laptops.
Believe you can and what you become is what you believed you could.
Author John Mason calls our current wave The Echo: life gives back everything you say. Life gives back everything you’ve given it. Rather than look at President Obama for the state of the nation, trouble truly starts in the mirror. Stop hating your boss and take on the party truly involved in creating low flying black clouds. You…
John Mason writes, “If you kicked the tail of the person responsible for not having a job, not enough money for groceries, not being able to hit Disney World or Carowinds for the weekend; you wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week.”
Stewart Johnson adds to the conversation, “Our business in life isn’t to get ahead of others, it’s to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by today.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught those who listened, “It’s impossible for man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
Nobody can defeat you except the person you are and shall become if what you think is allowed to breathe inside the heart and head of this wandering generation. How long was Moses out on the desert? How many years did the Crow Nation walk until they settled in the greasy grass of Montana?
What if splitting the water symbolizes an effort to separate the daily workplace storms from the constant economic changes and you walk right through no questions asked? A burning bush that talks? Maybe a good start would be two eyes fearing your next move in the mirror.
Zig Ziggler nailed it when saying, “What you picture in your mind your mind will go to work to accomplish. Change your picture and you change your performance.”
Maybe its time we go the way of Starhawk…
Who and what is a Starhawk? She teaches, “Panic is not an effective long term organizing strategy.”
Not just a thought but a seed; something to believe when believing has become your reasons to release in ways that not only damage the path to which you walk but find that it’s connected to others deciding if what you are is worth their investment and time.
I will always believe in you…to get there I had to believe in me first.
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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