MamaLiberty answers today’s earlier post by asking, “Do you smile every day?”
Everyone knows there is plenty in this world to worry about. Even those who avoid the world and national “news” as much as possible can’t help but note the downward spiral in their own financial situation, especially if they or those they love are unemployed. There is the constant push to destroy God given rights to life and liberty, and increasing efforts to criminalize and control everything. Then there is the cost of everyday necessities, increasing due to the sinking national economy and shrinking dollar. A great many people are seriously worried about their health, and the increasing Obummercare insanity replacing free market medicine and insurance. And so much more. Did you know that stress, worry and fear, are far more detrimental to good health than you might think?
It’s almost impossible to know the truth about the “news” or, often, even what’s really happening in our own area. Even people who are present during disturbances and crises seldom have a grasp on the whole problem, much less the whole solution. And, unfortunately, this creates a sort of vacuum that we too often fill with our imagination, our prejudices and the ghosts of our past. All of which can and will be used by the unscrupulous to direct, or even precipitate the next crisis. Trust, but verify. Don’t expect to know or understand everything. Do you need to know? What could you do about it if you did? Good questions to ask yourself, I think.
No hero on a white horse is going to come along and save the day. Not this election, or any other. And expecting the politicians to limit their evil and restore our “rights” is as empty of promise as intergalactic space. Maybe more so. And hoping to do that by threatening not to re-elect them would be a hysterical joke if it wasn’t so painful to watch good people continue to believe in that insanity after all these years, after watching endless rubber room elections.
What can you do? You may not agree at first, but I think there is something we can do, and it has to start with each of us as individuals.
Read the rest here.
Familiar territory to us hereabouts, but always a good reminder.
Oh cool. 🙂 Thanks, Claire
This was a good post ML and made me actually sit and think got a moment.
Do I smile every day?
Up until a short time ago I could not really in truth say yes to that question. Why? Because I was working in a security branch among youngsters who all want to join the police “when they grow up.” The majority of the issues I faced on a daily bases were because of the wannabes overstepping their authority. Now that I am a retired “man of leisure” as my wife puts it the strains of the job are gone, this means I’m a happy guy who shows them pearly whites a lot more. Gone are the sleepless nights where I would lie awake wondering what sort of nonsense I would have to deal with at work from the public, fellow employees and those quislings in management. Gone are the worries about fallout from challenging (fighting with) my peers and bosses about tasks that put a strain on my ethics and in some cases were outright violations of law, and yes I did this a lot and I was told, off the record, this the main reason why I was never promoted. Meh…
One of the nicest things that was said to me when I hung up the spurs was from my old manager. He looked me right in the eye, smiled and said “Finally another pain in the arse that I will not have to deal with any more.” This was because of all the grief I gave him.
So now the answer is yes I actually do smile every day. The simple reason for this is that the first time in my life I am in control of my situation. Well at least as much control as a guy can have these days. These days I don’t bother as much as I did with the news and views of the meat puppets in the media. I have made sure, well as much as I can, that my wife and I will come through whatever crisis the world throws at us. So for me life is good.