Change is Here! or Be the Change!
The tidal wave of worldwide social change has not been all unkind. Change has happened. Change in its definition means not the same. I know, I know, people are waiting for the world go back to “normal”. I was too until … I started thinking about that normal and the upside to the change that has been brought about in the year 2020 and the pandemic that has touched us all.
Think of our (the 98%) situation with the analogy of an abused person. They have been unhappy but change and the unknown have frozen them in fear. They think what if it gets worse? What if, as they have told me all my life, they are the only one looking out for me? What if I don’t fit into the new world? Ah, questions, questions, questions. This is your brain treating you mean. You and ‘WE’ are so much more.
This or This?
What do we want our education system to accomplish? I want our young to graduate from high school with the ability to provide for themselves in an area that gives their lives meaning; care for themselves emotionally, and be productive members of their family circle and society as a whole. Has it been doing that in the last 3 decades? Hmmm. The whole focus has been on State Test Report Cards and preparing students for college. We have been feeding our young to the ‘financial aid’ mentality and they come out of college with massive debt. They are angry and we see that as well. What happened to teach students how to care for themselves and their responsibility to the whole. We now have adults who are unable to take care of themselves doing their best to raise accountable humans. It is not their fault. It is broken. They need help.
In our beautiful, wonderful country, we have the opportunity to re-create a world that gives us all a chance to breathe again. We (society) need to be the adult and take responsibility. Do you remember, if you are old enough when the elder in your family, the one who seemed to hold it all together, died or failed physically and now it was up to you to carry on the traditions…or not? I remember being the “adult” that had to plan the whole camping trip. Well, it isn’t as easy as it when I was just along for the fun. When we were out in the middle of nowhere, it was on me when we didn’t have salt or sugar or ___________. There was pastry for breakfast instead of bacon and eggs and boy did the camps nearby send out inviting aromas with their breakfasts wafting by. It wasn’t the same as camping when my mom planned it, and now I can make it or break the joy for my children.
Have you ever read ‘Lord of the Flies?’ It is about all these kids on an island with no adults and the chaos of them trying to run things. That is what our country looks like right now. We (society) are allowing tantrum-throwing adults to run things. Innocent people are getting hurt. The majority of us do not want the violence and infestation of hate that our leaders are indulging in these tantrum-throwing adults.
Between the rioters and tantrum throwers (call them what they are) burning and looting our cities, the fires raging in Western United States due to unmanaged forests; and a pandemic forcing us to wear masks, we are all choking. We have a top-heavy government ran by people who have no idea how to manage our resources and voted into office by people who feel better about themselves when their own hatred is validated by those officials. We can guide the change to where we want it to go. Don’t be complacent. Don’t sit in your social-media, echo chambers patting each other on the back. That will not promote the change. Vote!
Now in 2020, we are realizing the importance of the emotional human being and the need to not only help the kids affected by the pandemic, but we also have a whole generation of adults who need our society to be the adult. We NEED our elected officials to hold the law breakers accountable. We need leadership that isn’t afraid to stand up and do what is best for the country and not their own interests.
