What you are is where you came from
Your thinking is directly connected to your past.
“I used to walk five miles to school everyday. Uphill, and in winter, through three feet of snow. Wind howling at my face.”
Where have you heard that before?
These people who once became successful, drove down bumpy muddy roads at racy speeds of 12 miles per hour and bounced their kidneys to their ears! They knocked half their teeth out for a Sunday drive in the country.
Now years and years later as they brush the only tooth that is really theirs, they contemplate those days in the sun.
Their day now is full of important decision making and requested guidance from followers.
Why, these are the people now, in charge of our society’s higher echelon of government and education.
Yikes! Based on what past experiences? They ate fatty, stick to your ribs lard and drank salty pickle juice to stay healthy. Or, these remedies at the very least tried to scare away disease. Brown sugar and kerosene scared away any potential parasites that might have been in them.
If as we have heard that, at the age of 10 we all lock into our belief system, than, what we perceive as right, normal and indifferent than that becomes us as a whole. It amazes me that we as a country have progressed at all. To the visionary, they will always be 10 years ahead of their time.
Some farmers mixed herbicides and pesticides with their bare hands. They are dead now. Some selling these products, even drank it to demonstrate that it was harmless. Oops, they aren’t here anymore either.
Meanwhile, we chewed on the lead paint on our cribs and inhaled cigarette smoke like there was no tomorrow at our parents frequent gatherings.
So, is there hope for us as we drag ourselves out of this quagmire?
Probably not. Oh yes, we’ll walk circles in the shopping malls every day to stretch the life longevity but we’ll have to face it. After what we’ve been through, we’re toast!
What about the next generation to step up to the plate? I am totally inspired by them. They are much more open to the world and world needs. Maybe because they didn’t have to walk so far to school, struggling through those howling gales.
They have more time to think about their fellow man/woman/child.
Maybe that’s why we are now hearing that we collectively want to end starvation in our world everywhere.
I like that thinking, don’t you?