The Times They Are A Changing

I have a feeling deep in by heart, at the core of my being. I believe we are on the verge of a huge change, not just in our country, but in the entire world. I’m not a psychic person, so I haven’t had a vision, where I can say what the change will look like on the other side of all of this. But, I do think we will all be living differently and looking at ourselves, our lives and each other differently.

I’m not without a job or homeless right now. But, I have been nearly homeless and without a job before. So, I know how scary that is. It’s difficult to look for the emerald in the coal - make lemon out of lemon aid - be grateful for what you have, when your whole life has been pulled out from under you. However, maybe it is at that particular time that it’s most important to take a deep look at those euphemisms. Perhaps it’s the opportunity to look at your life in a different way than you ever would have if you weren’t in the situation you are in.

Wouldn’t it be a good thing to find a way to throw out the arrogant, greedy, power hungry people who have created the mess we are in. We, I say that loosely, are only prolonging what needs to be done to take a different road, now that we are at this fork in the road. The powers that be, that should be representing us, blatantly chose to bail out these companies, these people, even though most of us out here didn’t want them to.

I believe we will eventually take that different road. The one that no longer allows us to give up our power, the way we have. I think we will start taking care of ourselves. But, better yet, I think we will start taking care of each other. We will find ways to be more self sufficient. We will look to more natural ways of healing ourselves rather than use a medical system that only spends money on drugs that make us sicker in the end. Hospitals and doctors that take everything we have, if we don’t have insurance. They are nothing but big business as well. We need to find a better way. We need to learn how to heal ourselves and then teach others how.

Actually, we took a step on that different road when we changed the way history could have gone. We elected, not only an African-American to lead us, but we chose someone who has a heart, who is really smart and one who is half white, raised in a white home. It is as though a piece of each one of us is represented in him. I believe he will do the best he can. I also believe that he has less power than most of us think.

Economists tell us, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. They see “worse” as huge companies failing, the stock market going down and all that is tied into these things (including Joe citizen) falling also. They see “better” as all of those things going back to business as usual. I think they are wrong. For us to move in this new direction, all of those things must come tumbling down, so we can learn to live in another way.

I feel the change coming. It is nearly here. Stand back from your life and take another look. Start figuring out how you can start to move in this new direction. If you do, I predict that your life will not be so scary anymore. You will not be so desperate anymore. And you will no longer make decisions out of that desperation.

Maybe, just maybe this really is “the best of times and the worst of times.”

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