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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
There is no escape.
No value in running.
Certainly no place to hide.
There are nearly a billion eyeballs staring at you and tens of millions of I-Phones trained on your every move.
Privacy is a concept but never a reality. You are being viewed, and often critically. Even individuals who do not speak to you are still noting your temperament, actions, generosity or lack of compassion.
Perhaps the greatest irony in the human experience is the notion that each one of us should carry a certain amount of overwrought self-esteem, even though simultaneously, you will not tolerate it in any other mortal.
Common sense should kick in. You and I should realize that since we are a species that respects the hell out of humility, pushing our self-worth too far guarantees a backlash from those who feel we are overbearing.
You must realize that kindness, mercy, grace and gentleness are not virtues but rather, precautions–used by intelligent people to protect them from the galling scrutiny of bystanders who draw conclusions from very little evidence.
And from those conclusions they decide how they will treat you.
Case in point:
Sometimes they don’t even know why they don’t like you, but they remember how you cut someone off in traffic, and it pissed them off.
They recall being in the room when you lied to your wife or your family.
They watch as, for the fourteenth time, you walk by a homeless person who is seeking a buck.
They burn with anger over your lack of consideration, caused by your perpetual boredom with your own life. Even though they themselves wouldn’t have done anything differently, you are not permitted indiscretion. You are not allowed to be obnoxious.
Courtesy is not an adventure of the meek, trying to keep the world civil. It is a coat of armor to protect against the slings and arrows which come from the probing public, always ready to indict, prosecute and convict.
And that doesn’t even take into consideration that there may be an Eternal Creator, also watching, who happens to know the number of “glares in your head.”
If you decide to be surly, always realize that there are people who saw it. They will take that encounter and use it against you in a time and place which you do not know.
So now for our salient moment. May I keep it simple?
Be mean, be seen.
Be kind, clear mind.
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G-Poppers … April 6th, 2018
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“GEE-WHIZ,” said G-Pop with an emphatic sigh.
There seems to be a series of “G” words tumbling off of people’s lips, going a bit haywire.
It starts with “GOD.”
G-Pop sat back last week and watched the more ceremonial, Druid aspects of the Christian faith take over in an attempt to temporarily get us to believe in a God who manipulates circumstances, destroys lives and “tunes” fate to produce human sacrifice, which is supposed to be an atonement for our horrific sins. The New Testament refers to Him as “God the Father,” but apparently, for a brief period, Daddy became “God the Executioner,” who went against His own abhorrence for animal sacrifice and laid a big, fat, bloody, smeary death on Jesus of Nazareth.
Then there’s “GAY.”
G-Pop wants the gay community to have all the rights, privileges and benefits as beautiful American citizens. But is it necessary for everything to suddenly be gay? There’s a sniff in the air that we should all become a little gay ourselves, to confirm that we’re open-minded enough to accept the full alphabet of the gay community, which grows by a consonant every day. LGBTQ(RSUV).
“GUNS.”
Is there anything that we, as human beings, own and admire and do not eventually use? G-Pop has been around guns in his life, and every time he did so, he wanted to shoot one. We shouldn’t be questioning whether people should have guns–but it might be good to ask what they plan on doing with them. Because guns may not kill people, but bullets do, and it is very difficult to own a gun without eventually wanting to put a bullet in it and find out how it works.
“GREED.”
G-Pop wonders if the only way to make America great again is money. Is it possible that we could be great in compassion? Was Ronald Reagan correct when he envisioned us as a city set on a hill, to be a beacon-light to the world? Or should we just present our P&L statement at the end of the year, and as long as we’re in the black, “God is good.”
“GRUMBLING.”
When did we start believing that something we despise in other people–complaining–is permissible for us to do? If you don’t want to hear G-Pop spout his grievances, then please don’t establish a lifestyle of grumbling, thinking it makes you sound grown-up, mature and thoughtful.
And finally, “GOODNESS.”
When did goodness become a joke–something to be avoided because it is naive and doesn’t understand how life really functions?
Gee-whiz. G-Pop would like to sum it up:
God is a Father, not a murderer.
Welcome, gays, to America, where you are free to love whomever you want to.
I hope you will enjoy your gun, as long as you help me keep them out of the hands of people who are bent on killing.
Would you consider joining G-Pop in being greedy for generosity?
And while you’re at it, can you set aside your grumbling and take five minutes to see if you can’t balance it with your blessings?
And finally, why don’t each and every one of us make “Oh, my goodness” a reality instead of an exclamation of bewilderment?
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