When you get up each day, and step outside,…be it just going from your door to your car, or to a building 6 blocks away to be lectured on material you’ll never learn…..what are you thinking. Do you see the pale light of the winter sun and breath in the scent of civilization. Or are you thinking about what you need to do the rest of the day, or for the rest of the week, or next year. Why is it that most of us spend our entire life planning for tomorrow, and worrying about the future, then later in life it becomes all about yesterday. When will America learn to balance life, a little of tomorrow, a little of yesterday, and a good chunk of right now. I’m reading the newspaper right now for a political science class, and all the stuff I read is about how the U.S. should or shouldn’t go to war, and about how fanatical someone (read Bush, Muslims, Hussein, etc.) is, and about how we have to be careful of that person. Also there is a lot of focus on how terrorism is going to end the American way of life, or about how muslims (or the entire middle-east) hates the west because our influence is going to ruin the islamic way of life. So go figure.
So I think people in general need to relax. They need to look up at the sky, and smell the air. We all need to learn from our past and plan for our future, so we can live right now as best as we can. It is important to not get caught up in the mistakes of the past, or spend our lifes worrying (read ‘planning’) about our future. Maybe if here we realized that our way of life will be protected best by what we do here, inside the U.S. as much as outside, and if people in the middle-east realized that to protect their way of life, they need to focus on themselves, and not what we do in the west, our lives could be a little better.
So stop for a while, look up and smile at the sky, or stick your tounge out and catch a snowflake, but stop focusing on people in the desert, and try to focus on your right now, and right here.
–Thank you, and goodnight.