This is a mixture of responses to your first and second postings:
I will have to say that it is good to see people my age(I am 26 also), or a little bit older or younger, speak out against the policies that Obama stands for. I am in a similar boat as you. It is hard for me to find a job, so I’ve been stuck working at Best Buy for over four years because that may be the best retail job that I can have at the moment. I also have a form of autism, called asperger’s syndrome, which can be a limitation on the jobs that I can possibly have.
Currently I am in college trying to get a communications degree so that I can be a radio DJ, and am on the pathway to having my own radio show at the college’s radio station. The quickest way out of my mess is to be able to find a commercial venture for my lyrics, songs, poetry whathaveyou. So far, that hasn’t worked as the big movers and shakers in the music industry do not find my work good enough to publish or to pair with anybody. But I cannot be quiet and accept my failures.
We all have periods in our lives, I would think, where we can see no sun over the horizon. We tend to see life as a scale of ascendance but sometimes the scales may tip not in our favor and we go sliding downwards into the abyss. Sometimes I feel that way, as I am 26, I also live with my father and I should have a girlfriend and be out of college by now. Life moves by so fast that it is incredible to actually anticipate the future that we live in.
We are young enough to see the world revolutionize itself. 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. Sometimes the best thing to do is to go on a walk, pick a goofy song from the 1950s(Purple People Eater did the trick for me) and listen to the whole thing. That made me feel happy today.
“...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.