You are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. — Barbara Hall
Everyday each of us makes a variety of choices and set priorities for our actions. We do this either with a conscious effort or an unconscious one. Sometimes our choices are great, sometimes fair, and sometimes poor, and the result of our choice is very seldom evident at the outset.
While each of us make a choice about what action we are going to take another factor sometimes rears its head and forces us to make a choice we don’t want to make, but feel compelled to. Sometimes external forces place us in a situation where it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.
When I was young I made choices that at the time seemed great. The problem was they weren’t great and the worse part of it was deep down I knew those decisions were going to come back and haunt me some day. But that was the key word: Someday, not today.
The pleasures of the moment took precedent over the consequences of the future, a future I am now living. The law of Cause and Effect is directly related to the law of Choices. To briefly summarize, the choice we make at the moment creates a cause which at some point creates an effect. I chose to live in the moment and ignore the future. That choice set up a specific cause which in turn created an effect. I chose in my youth not to save money, this caused me a shortage in my bank account which created the effect of my living from payday-to-payday in my later years. I made a choice to live in the moment and disregard the consequences of the future, and now I am paying a big price for that decision.
I just had to have that new item. I just had to spend that money. I just had to have… you can finish the sentence. The point is now all those items I had to have are now sitting in boxes, were given away, or placed in the trash. So much for having to have. Had I invested that money I would not be in the situation I find myself in today, but I was so selfish I refused to see the consequences of my actions.
Enter a far deadlier scenario: the choices our elected leaders made in the past now affect each of us today. Thus we find ourselves in a situation and wonder just how we got here. Well how we got here is easy to explain for just like me when I had to have that item I desired our politicians of the past promised us a world they knew they could not deliver. And just like me the politicians of yesteryear knew what the consequences of their actions would be but they refused to acknowledge the facts, instead opting for the pleasures of being re-elected to power for the sake of their own egos. Sixty years of this type of thinking has produced a set of politicians that now, beyond anything else feel they need to destroy the greatest country on earth. And they have accomplices in the form of the national news media to support and assist them.
Come to think of it, I only affected the future of me; these politicians have destroyed the future of a nation, and they are not finished yet.
Today our national news media continues to destroy the nation and they engage in the activity with an enthusiasm not seen since the destruction of Rome. Why? An excellent question with an easy answer: these entities are terrified of being known as American. It’s no more complicated than that. For them America is evil and must be destroyed, and they engage in deliberate activities to ensure this future comes true.
I wonder how the Germans felt at the end after Hitler guided their country to total destruction and ruin. I wonder what thoughts entered their mind as they saw American troops entered their cities. Did they consider the possibility that the Americans would kill them for vengeance? If you listen to revised history, that scenario could have been a real possibility for consideration. But instead truth bears the fruit as Germany is now a great country, with great people, all because we, Americans, helped rebuild their society and punished their evil. And we did it at a great cost, a cost evident in the graves that bear witness to our sacrifice and determination.
Rome died because politicians destroyed it. And the people, the people allowed it to happen. The same can be said for us, or can it. Will the people of this country allow it to be destroyed? If not held accountable the politicians and national media will ensure our destruction, all in the name of fairness.
But, but that is not going to be the case. For like me, when I finally woke up and discovered I had to change, when I realized all the damage I did to myself, when I knew that I must either change or live the rest of my life one paycheck from total disaster, my world began to change. This country will not die because a few politicians and national media want it to, no this country will emerge stronger than before. This country will adjust to the new reality of responsibility and accountability, all to the dismay of those who want it to die.
How do I know this? Because we have gone down this road before, in the 1930’s when the great depression hit. The same type of corrupt politicians and power players then are still with us today. Human nature does not change unless forced to change.
I changed because I found out I had to change and when that reality hit I knew exactly what I had to do. The national media will try to persuade the masses that those who want to save the nation are evil and out to destroy the country, but it is they who really want to destroy our way of life. And how do I know this? Because at one time I was one of their students and I learned their lessons very well, lessons which almost destroyed me.
G.
