Archive for November 4th, 2008
“A More Perfect Union”
by Nevok on Nov.04, 2008, under Next Exit: US of A
I have to admit that I am chewing on my fingernails right now. It’s not like this is the end of the world, far from it, but nevertheless, I think we are at a crossroad here. And it’s not just the issue of taking the road less traveled (thank you, Robert Frost), but the choice made today is one with repercussions felt for a long while most likely.
To put it in the words of Obama or possibly one of his speech writers, which I am shamelessly making use of, adding and substracting to them as I please, commenting if I see fit, it is a promise we make to our children. That each of us can make what we want of our lives. It is this promise, that has enabled so many of us to become great.
Great. What is ‘great’? To most of us, our parents are the greatest, infallible, omnipotent and omniscient. It often is a rude awakening to find out that those we put on a pedestal are not greater than we are, heck, sometimes they have flaws we do not have yet at that time. ‘Yet’ being the key word. Because many of us grow up to find that do as we might, we maybe fall into the same patterns as our parents, we do more and more take the roads more often traveled for sake of convenience, peer pressure, heck, for whatever reason making life just a bit more comfortable, more endurable or, yes, more enjoyable.
Which is fine and dandy I guess…until we arrive at a time and place where our decisions impact others. Not necessarily others directly around us, but more often than not others who are still to come.
