Last night as I lay in bed watching the late news on Fox I was struck with a sudden realization about our great nation and its allies. The realization was that our allies and us have advanced so far we now have forgotten where we have been. Can you imagine what your grandparents would say should they be here today? Do you really think they would be proud of us?
As I listened to the announcer bombard me with the rhetoric of the day my mind wandered to stories I was told as a child. Stories that at the time were used to either make me behave or put a fear in me regarding something I knew not to fear. What I would learn later in life amazed me; one I had paid attention, I retained those stories and two, they were not stories at all. It is the lineage we all come from, it was the thread in our global fabric we seem to have unraveled.
Today I took a break from my daily drudge of domestic duties, writing, entertaining my furry friends and accepted an invitation to have lunch with Mother and Grandmother. Besides getting me out of the house, my mother was kind enough to pay for my lunch and though I did not realize it at the time I would later determine it had been very entertaining.
It amazes me that no matter how hard we try or how hard we fight the genetic makeup we each possess; we all become our parents. This is not, as I imagined earlier in life, a curse but rather a chance to look in mirror we seldom realize is there.
I do try to be humorous most of the time but sometimes I just have a serious moment and have to let it go. So for this entry I need a serious moment. My fellow Americans; where are we going? Do we even remember where we have been or what we have went through?
To me it looks scary growing old in this country. I see the future generation getting fat and lazy because they do not know how to play, they can not make change and their idea of the three "R's" is found on Google or not at all. I see my grandmothers saving being bleed dry just to survive because the cost of being old today is just astronomical. I see people who have a valid education but still can find no job. I see people having to choose between heat and food; I see no "can do" spirit at all remaining in this country. What happen?
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