“Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.” ― Rumi
This crazy puppet show is distracting me from what is important.
Dear Status Quo,
We both know this can’t go on, not they way it’s been going…so you’ve got to go. We can’t take you anymore. You have outstayed your welcome and you must leave immediately.
I know you’ve been here a long time and some people are counting on you to stay but nothing is forever and frankly there are so many more of us who want you gone. We are quite adamant about it…in fact we demand it!
Lets root for the lesser of two evils.
The way you carry on is unsustainable.
You said you’d change and we believed you only to be let down again.
The truth is we can no longer afford your frivolous ways and outlandish and wasteful behavior. You’ve damn near wrecked our home and now it’s our future selves and our children who’ll be cleaning up the mess that you’ll leave behind.
Put down that drink and wake up! Do you ever listen?
Hey YOU!!! Do we need to yell?
LEAVE!!
Get out now! Never come back….
To the victor go the spoils. RAWR!
As a witness to 45 years of history I am thinking thoughts I never would have imagined years ago when at first I began to pay conscious attention to what’s was going on around me.
It’s funny how history can rewrite itself before one’s very eyes and yes indeed the victors do write and rewrite history over and over again….
It’s so easy to ignore it all…It’s hard to take. But as time goes on and events play out I am forced to concede that everything is not what it pretends to be and no matter how crazy I tell myself THAT is…I can’t help but begin to believe it.
It’s not that I don’t have hope. I am loaded with it and it is not just blind faith. I go on evidence. I see people waking up and realizing that if we don’t open our eyes and have the courage to say what we really think and how we really feel about what is going on, one day it will be too late. No one will come and save us. We have to save ourselves.
~NLM
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
I always put myself in my writing. I know no other way. You senses are correct, I feel personal pain but not any more than anyone else. Pain is a part of life, and so is joy. Thanks for your thoughfulness Frank. 🙂
I am optimistic it will change, but given all I have seen, I at times lose that hope, for a minute and then remind myself that the only constant really is change more so than time…I just hope it actually does happen and quickly.
Life Is Color 
Well done, but i sense personal pain.
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I always put myself in my writing. I know no other way. You senses are correct, I feel personal pain but not any more than anyone else. Pain is a part of life, and so is joy. Thanks for your thoughfulness Frank. 🙂
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Yep – whether we like it or not, pain is absolutely part of life … but it can also be a learning experience. Be strong.
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Thank you.
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The example of the economy of Greece shows that the old paradigms supporting the status quo are crumbling and need replacing.
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No doubt Alex. Either we must change or it will be forced upon us.
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I am optimistic it will change, but given all I have seen, I at times lose that hope, for a minute and then remind myself that the only constant really is change more so than time…I just hope it actually does happen and quickly.
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I know what you mean…
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The longer we wait, the more painful it will be . . . and it’s already to the point where it’ll be painful enough to give pause to a lot of people.
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Painfully correct.
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