
On December 28th, 2020, I hope to turn 55 years of age.
I hope.
I have hope. The hope I have gives me joy.
Several years ago, for a variety of reasons, I took time to self-examine my thinking and my life journey.
I’d like to share some of my observations from being self-isolated from humanity.
1. My body is closer to dying than away from my birthdate. It is simple math and benchmarking.
I do rituals like eating a healthy diet, stay hydrated, keep my weight managed and exercise daily.
I try to keep my life in balance and focus on a positive mindset. (I’ll not comment on genetics and random good or bad luck.)
But I don’t want to hasten my death. And I don’t want to harm anyone else.
2. I added this picture because it tells the story. It’s an invisible snow blizzard that can kill you.
These viral snowflakes have spikes that attack human cells.
I could be Coronavirus asymptomatic and accidentally infect another innocent person.
A child or a senior citizen?
I’ll keep hunkering down.
“Be ye kind, one to another…”
3. In my time on earth, the two words, ‘political-thought’ are oxymoronic.
If there has ever been a national call for congressional term limits – we are watching the case study.
An eighty-something is the Speaker of the House, elected in 1987, and we have an eighty-something Senate Majority Leader, elected in 1984, playing political gamesmanship while people I know have a zero income, no job, and are told to self-isolate. And that assumes they don’t have any children to feed.
My definition of hell on earth.
4. The country of my origin, the United States of America, has a 73-year-old president that likes to pretzel style his hair into a yellowish wasp nest like thingy and personally earned a lot of Federal Reserve Notes being a reality television star. I don’t like his tweeting, or his combative nature. And yes, I voted for him.
But, I think he’s done a good job managing the unimaginable.
I express that sentence based on watching the daily evening news conference and how he respectfully treats Dr Birx. She’s kept me sane through this mess, she’s brilliant, factual and not a drama queen (that’s neither a masculine nor feminine concept).
After this pandemic calms down, she should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NS
Great piece!! You hit the nail on the head with some of your comments. Stay safe.