It’s not my fault nor it is your fault, it just is what it is. It’s the time of the exceptional, and you must appreciate this. The average is so far beneath the “bar” you can crawl on your belly to attain it. With the advent of globalization, the world stage has changed. Making it through high school and not having a child, for some has become the new “high” expectation. These often find themselves living on the lowest level of the human food chain. Don’t get merely mad, it is what is it is. But, It don’t have to be. “That’s Right I Said It.”
To our youth, we must again reclaim the spirit of our forefathers. Reach for the stars – what are they there for? It’s tough yes, and it isn’t going to get any easier. The world is more competitive. The world wants higher wages and we won’t work for nothing.
So we must prepare. Some folks can afford to goof-off in college we can’t. We must set goals and reach them. Remember, while you are partying someone else is studying. Who do you think is going to get “The Job” when opportunity hits. Trust me it will hit, it always does. Perhaps you are looking at the kids at the “other” school and they party. They most often have a safety net. It’s call money. You got money? Did your great great-grandfather leave his linage a life insurance policy that is now worth millions? No! You better study and get prepared.
Benjamin Mays’ quote still rings, “Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.” The question begs, what unique and distinctive thing were you created for?
Hey. Be remembered for more than someone who took a life. But for someone who saved lives. Be remembered for someone who raised the level of your community. Be a hero for righteousness, good and all that is pleasant. This is still possible.
Look around, see for yourselves. If we continue on the current path we are headed for extinction. Our greatest enemy isn’t “across” the water in some dusty sandy desert. He and she are across the street. Down the block. Your neighbor and mine!
This is reason for alarm. Only we can take claim of what we want for our communities and wish, want and work it into reality. We have to remember what was and reclaim it for our future.
The government can’t build enough jails. We must decide we don’t want to go and live according to the standards of a civilized society. Today is the day of our salvation.
It is well said, it takes a community to raise a child. Sadly, now the question has become, “What if the community is broken; what do the righteous do?” The healing must come from within.
The seeds of greatness perhaps lie dormant. My favorite quote by James Allen is Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions. But when he realizes that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
As a community, we have become captive to a master of self-destruction. Our young geniuses think they are in control; they are not. Though many are at liberty, they are destined to the literal incarceration of some state’s criminal correctional facility because their true self is captive even now. Ignorance is the oldest and largest jail known to mankind.
Now is the time to escape. Breakout! Run away. Go to the far country where freedom is. The land of freedom is still knowledge and education. And it’s even free. You live in a country that will pay you to get educated. But you have to prepare. You must be among the exceptional – and you are. You are in that class!
Dig deep into the soil of your being and tap the root of your potential. The seed was put there by your creator – it’s in you baby. Reach deep. Struggle long. Work hard. Sprout up and reach for the sky.
When you have emerged, the Sun will greet you. The rains will refresh you and the air will fill you as you burst forth. Then you will really reach as you have never reached before. Soon, fruit will naturally come and others will feed from your freedom.
Around you a new community emerges.
Wow!
©2010 Benny R. Walls
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