“...Life moves by so fast...”
My young friend, you have NO idea how fast...:^)
Enjoy your life, as much as possible, and take NO moments for granted. Every breath in your lungs is a gift from God.
“...We should feel pity upon those who are old enough, no offense, to not live past the next four years but know, and dread, what those years will do...”
Pity, no. Most folks that have lived their lives are at peace with things. It comes with age.
Respect, yes, and be determined NOT to let this Thug administration and his commie henchment steal everything that those same past generations preserved - for YOU and your generation - at horrific cost in blood, lives, pain, and treasure.
You have much more influence than you realize when you speak out to your peers. Learn the history of your people as a Nation and AS a people, warts and all, and do NOT let it be twisted and rewritten.
As for pity...my generation has pity for what lies ahead for YOU guys and yours if you can’t turn this crap around and put this bum and his ideology on the crapheap of history where it belongs, once and for all.
We’re getting older, we’re still “full of “piss and vinegar” as the saying goes, but time catches up with all of us, eventually.
They KNOW that you can’t do ANYTHING to stop them so long as you’re worried about basic survival and where your next meal is coming from. So this collapse and economic wreckage is something that they’ve planned for along time and finally saw their shot at setting it off.
Get hardened, get pissed, and get ready for worse, because the next four years they’re going all out to stick it to us.
But remember one thing - there’s been worse in this country before, much worse, and we survived it because ultimately we remembered we were Americans, and in this land, anything is possible as long as we remember who we are, where we came from, and what we ourselves are capable of.
My problem is that while many of my co-workers at work were determined to vote for Obama, I didn’t say to all of them about what he has done to give some of us the current retail blues. Honestly I don’t get much of why they buy into his policies. We are young so aren’t we determined to be as successful as possible without somebody punishing us for, perhaps, being able to make it in this world?
One of my favorite subjects, deriving from academia, is in history. I understand what happened in World War II and how that makes me respect our military. I also understand how Leftist idealism has led to the concentration camp, and the horrors of the Ukraine famine and the cultural revolution in Mao’s China. Unfortunately the future hasn’t been decided for my age group yet. Thus, my statement about “pity” as it is, is about the youth of today striving for Liberal gains without any certainty of an opposed possibility. I am pretty sure that you will see a trend going that will surprise Michael Moore who thinks that the young, today, are Liberal toadies. I am not a prophet, though.
Unfortunately nature abhors a vacuum. Some people still believe in the glory days of Che, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and whatever ideology lies behind us. While I don’t think that there is ever going to be a complete dissipation of an ideology, the best thing is to make sure that it loses relevance again. As a creative type, my contribution to a more Conservative, Libertarian or Anarcho-Capitalist society is through my writings. I’ve tried writing songs, and lyrics, expressing my feelings on subjects like abortion.
This is just my perspective.