I am still going to continue my story in future posts, but a
couple of news events just shows we have no idea what the future can bring us
if we fail to hold our leaders and ourselves responsible for putting people first.
The first event was the Russian passenger airliner that crashed
coming out of Egypt. If you have been reading the news you have heard there is
a possibility there was a bomb involved. And now flights are being cancelled,
people are leaving, and the Egyptians are losing tons of tourism business which
their economy needs. It doesn’t take much anymore. We need to seriously look at
the big picture and what we are doing that drives people to form and join
extremist groups. Terrorism is not something that will be eradicated overnight.
Yet we have to find a way to live fruitful and constructive lives and not let
the terrorists drive our governments into such paranoia that our values and
freedoms are compromised. There are no
immediate answers, but it is up to us to force our leaders to make better
decisions overall for our own countries and the way countries treat each other
and their people so we can slowly change the attitudes that cause people to be
misled into these terrible crimes against people and humanity. At some point
you would hope that we, as humanity, would grow positively.
The second news event is scary in a totally different way and
is the scandal in a Colorado high school involving sexting. People seem to be
obsessed with fame or popularity more so than values anymore. At some point we
need to re instate a value system for our youth to follow. We do not have to go
to the other extreme and make all women/girls cover themselves from head to
toe, but some sense of worth as a person needs to be taught. It is a sad
reflection of our entire society that this type of scandal exists. Everyone
wants to blame the phones, the parents, the kids, yet no one wants to sit down
and ask the hard questions of what it takes for not one or two children to lose
sense of what they are doing, but a whole community of children. This is a symptom
of some serious issues we need to address. I was talking about it with others
and then even I let the conversation get sidetracked into bad jokes and
creating a show called “Avoiding the Kardashians”. A whole series of bad SNL
skits showing how we have lost track of what is important. And I am not saying
this is their fault, yet their show is just another symptom of how lost of a
society we have become. And yes teenagers will make bad decisions. I know I
made more than my share as a teenager. Again though why aren’t we going forward
as humanity? I do not think we will ever be perfect, yet at some point how can
we instill common sense values into our lives so young people are not
subjecting themselves to self-degradation just to be accepted. And even this
acceptance exists in a fragile and fleeting moment in time.
Or basically sometimes we can all just have a Loss for
words. Or wish we had cure all answers.
I will continue my story on the same track I began, but
sometimes current events just have to be addressed. And I do not want to let
current events effect my scenario because I just want to stay with one idea for
now. Anyway these stories upset my
internal apple cart and wanted to get my feelings off my chest even if I had to
get up on a soap box for a moment.
No matter what the cause lets’ consider the victims in these
scenarios and think about what we can do to prevent more victims.
Hope you have a better weekend
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