We’ll it’s been quite a week. Professional athletes have
been making the highlight reel after their game and the lowlight reel for some
things they did off the field. A rich
old white guy in an expensive suit tried to convince those who were watching
that the dog ate his homework, when in reality the dog didn’t exist and there
really wasn’t any homework. As the NFL’s
crisis of conscience continues getting more and more convoluted while the jumbo
sized boxes of Band-Aids are rolled out to face the problem head on, I’m left with
a thought.
I hope that someone in a
situation like some of these families are in finally decides for themselves that enough is enough and
takes some steps to change their Life, no matter how scared they are. Walking
through the internal fire of a major Life change isn’t easy, never has been
never will be. There is support out there, though finding it isn’t always easy
either. I was talking to a couple of my buddies out by the smokers tree at work today and
came to the conclusion that it sucks that one has to be a part of the system long
enough to know what angles to play to even get some of the most basic kinds of
help; not get rich or just take for the sake of taking type of stuff, just enough to make it a
little easier to live day to day.
Major social issues are never fixed by throwing
more rules and regulations at them. That just fuels those making the new rules with the audacity
to puff out their chest and say see what I did, it becomes just another
magician’s misdirection ploy, though it does give the mob mentality someone to
hang in the meantime. We all live Life
individually, no one can think for me nor can I for them. Good thing isn’t it?
Any major change occurs on an individual basis; you can’t throw a net over something
so large and for a moment expect to be able to pick it up all at once. It’s the individuals involved that make it happen
one person at a time, not the big shiny stuff rolled out to collect accolades
and applause, those are just there to polish egos and garner brownie points. Change comes from the people working side by
side with those that are trying to change their lives. There are examples all around, you may
have walked by someone in the grocery store today never knowing what positive changes
had occurred recently for that person perusing the frozen vegetables. The way I see it everyone is recovering from something,
either their own addiction or the side effects of someone else’s. It doesn’t matter if it’s booze, drugs, food,
gambling, anger, sex, guilt-tripping, power-tripping, or cow-tipping, when they are essentially
all about abuse in some way, over-indulgence to where they reach a point of
getting in the way of living Life on a day to day basis. Can we fix ourselves? Maybe. Will we fix
ourselves? Maybe. Do we want to fix ourselves? Maybe. That is just my two cents and with it
currently costing 2.4 cents to make a penny I will now go to the back door and
throw a nickel in the street. Keep the change.
