The Politicians are Politicking
Have you been watching the presidential debates? Jeff and I have been watching, although I almost turned it off last night. It’s pretty much the same stuff, and so I got to wondering…how much of us have the same stuff rolling round our heads about who we are, what we want to do, and how we’re going to do it.
We say that we want change…but do we really? Change means doing things in a different way. You’ve heard the old saying, ‘the definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results.’ I think it happens with most of what we do. We learn to do something a certain way, and even if it works against us, we keep on doing it the same way because it’s easier than changing.
Take dieting for example. Have you ever been on a diet, hoping to lose all the weight so that you can go back to your life as it was before, only looking much slimmer! I guess that’s why most diets don’t work. We’re willing to do something differently for a certain time, but when we’ve reached our goal…we go back to the way it was before.
That’s why maintaining a goal weight is as important as losing it in the first place.
Or, have you noticed how many people get divorced and then you see them re-married to the same version of the person they just divorced?
We want our new president–whoever it may be–to be smart, to keep us on track, to stop spending our money on useless things, to stop the war, to create jobs, health plans, environmentally sound energy and on and on. And yet we….don’t really want change. Or, we want change but to keep everything we like the same.
I don’t think it’s possible. When we want things to be different, we have to change some things…and when we change some of the things….that means most of the things change.
Like for example, I was talking to someone this morning who gets depressed easily, and I said, “What about you have a purpose in life to see the light. To look for the good in life. To view the cup as half full. To feed the ‘light angel’ instead of the dark one.”
It seems a simple thing to do, and yet it isn’t. Because to look for the good, when you are used to looking for the bad, means that everything will change. Discussions about how bad things are can no longer take place….because you are looking for the good. Getting sympathy for something bad that happened in the past can no longer happen, because you are only looking at the good things that happened in your life.
The great thing is that it’s all a choice. Just like your vote for who you want to run the country. It’s your choice. So make the choice a good one. Choose the things that will make you look for the good in your life. Remember your good deeds when you think back over your past….and your future will be blessed with more good things than you can ever possibly imagine. Rock N Roll Val & Jeff
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