LOOK AHEAD TO YESTERDAY
Like history is said to do, much of life, itself gets repeated.
What changes you make will set the stage for new ones next year, and both will be related to what has been done in the past. Life is a progression, not a series of new starts as some people seem to think it is supposed to be.. The "new" leaf you "turn over" is not so original after all, but rather a more defined translation of what you have experienced before, edited a bit, perhaps, amended to reflect the press of current circumstances an a more
awareness of our actual needs.
We are, then, very often, decided to do what we have done before.
We should all be made aware of this condition. Now that we are emmeshed in yet another national election. This is not a parlor game we are playing'. This is a time when we are actively setting the path we are to follow into our future. This is no time to be permissive and to allow errors to be made in the name of tolerance and so-called understandings of conflicting views.
Just about all of us have a time in mind which seems to have been better than that which we now know. We called such times as "the good ole days" and it sems to think we can wave a magic wand of words and bring them back for a re-run. We can't, of course, because we are seeing them as fueled by what has happened since that time, changes of circumstances since those halcyon days. The basis of need has changed far more than we might realize.
You can't go back to the rather ideal setting of your home town of which you have memories of being so happy and content. The village simply is not there in the same context. So it is wih our present locations. They are not what they seemed to have been just a few years ago. They have changed, even though they may appear to intact.
Nostalgia can be costly as many a person has discovered when he tried to restore the old home place to the condition in which he remembers it to have been during his youth. Political parties are not, and never have been flawless. No one party has a monooly on fairness and truth.
We have already had a few open-mike incidents in the present campaign and there will be more – accidental and staged – in which steet language will be used setting forth what many will consider to be the more accurate picture of events and of persons involved therein.
Brace yourself. This round shows promise of being a rowdy one.
A.L.M. March 11, 2004 [c466wds]
