Tick Tock
by Bucktowndusty
Life, in its smallest of increments, is precious.
Have you savored the seconds?
Have you grasped the epiphany?
Do you have passion for the available time you have left, and did you show any for that which has already passed?
We do not know how long life will last for us, but we can be assured that it will consume the time between Point A and Point B. Every single thing we do, no matter how mundane, consumes, and thus represents, a priceless portion of our slot in time.
If someone were to ask you the above questions, would you be able to share your finite moments with equal passion?
If someone were to ask you to describe a period of your life, would you want to?
Short of having a video tape of the various moments in your life, how would you express all that was and is your life?
Our lives are in everything we do, everyone we meet, every person we come in contact with, every emotion we choose to embrace.
The most mundane term paper is like a videotape of you and your life at that moment. That term paper is you! The traffic jam you cursed everything and everyone through is a video tape of you and your life at that moment. The troubled friendship or relationship you choose to perpetuate negatively is a video tape of you and your life at that moment. How you handled them is everything. If you wouldn’t want to replay those videos, then weren’t these moments wasted moments?
Did you savor it all? Will you now?
Did you understand the epiphany? Do you now?
Did you have passion for these tough times, too, equal to that of the easy? Will you now?
It’s all good; every thing, every person, every hour, every minute, every second of every bit of that which we call our lives. Live them with passion, appreciation, and anticipation.
They will end!
How many do you have left?
If you could bring your remaining moments with you to another life, would you want to watch them on video again?
Tick tock…Tick tock!
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One Vote Does An American Make
by A. Hamilton
The population of the United States topped 300-million this year; of this there are about 140-million registered voters, or about 47% of the population. Also, this year only about 75% of registered voters actually voted, or about 105-million people.
In the mid-term election last November the Democrats narrowly beat the Republicans to win both the House and the Senate, with (probably) 55-million people voting Democrat. If my figures are correct, 18% of Americans decided to put the Democrats in power to govern 100% of the people and yet, politicians persist in saying, “The American people have spoken,”
The Clintons knew this in 1991 when Bill romanced the Black community. At the time Blacks represented about 17% of the population which totaled 240-million people, that’s about 40.8-million people. Of the total population there were about 120-million registered voters, only half of which actually voted, or about 60-million people. So good old Bill figured, (with a simple pocket calculator), if he got most of the Black vote he would be a shoe-in for president. He did and became the first Black president of the United States.
Although the skewed ratio of actual votes to total population can give one party a legal win over another, politicians should blush when saying that they are answering the will of all Americans, unless, that is to say, they only value the persons who vote as Americans.
But, what the hell, in some respects they are correct, because, as the tree that falls in the forest with no one near to hear it makes no noise, so is the person who neglects to vote, not American?
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