"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most”
Stephen R. Covey
Another day and another opportunity for me to scratch my head.
As one who has always found it difficult to fit in,these times are even more challenging for me.
I have always questioned why it is that I seem to view things so much differently than
the majority of those around me.
Over the years, I have come to accept that,oftentimes smiling as if I knew a secret that others didn't get. More often than not however, I have been perplexed by how little light people see and how they choose to succumb to the darkness.
Oh heck, let's call it as I see it, there are way to many Chicken Littles and not enough Don Quixote's.
Sadly this trend seems to be continuing.
All of the little chickens (hah...like the way I did that!) are electing to huddle in the corners of their self made coops,fearing the big bad wolf, with absolutely no desire or will to sick their scawny little chicken necks out for fear of having their heads cut off.
Bullshit to that!
I keep hearing terms like "Heroes" and "those on the frontlines".
It's as if the rest of the world, the rest of you, the rest of us,are waiting for someone to save them. Ain't gonna happen.
You want saving?
Get off your ass.
Get mad.
Get to work.
Stop cowering .
Do something. Do anything.
Just don't sit there.
Stay at home,stay away,stay secluded?
Until when?
Until someone TELLS you it's safe?
Nope.
None of that will make any of us great again.
It's time to stop putting those who are making the most of their opportunity to be vital on a pedestal by showing up to work and start questioning ourselves as to why we aren't taking steps to regain what we have so willingly let go of.
It's time to join them.
It's time everyone got in the game instead of sitting under the bleachers.
If I had cancer, I wouldn't wait for advice from an oncologist. I would hunt him down until I couldn't hunt anymore.
Sitting around waiting for someone to tell me "all's clear,you can come out now", is not the answer.
The only question to be answered at this point is what can I (we) do now to move forward.
Someone had to be the first to step into the Red Sea.
Someone had to believe against everything their eyes were telling them, that it would be all right.
It's time to either build a bridge to cross that sea or take a chance that We might just have to get a little wet!
Here's today's Song of the Day:
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