[I choose to post my stuff in large type because it's easier on my eyes]
I'm slowly but surely recovering from a long bout of Political Flu. The damn thing has been congesting my creativity for a long time... perhaps a year or so, I really can't place a length of time on it. Sluggish and desperate for answers in this climate that has dominated me, looking for relief in alternative news sources brought temporary relief, but the Political Flu was lodged deep inside a mind that cranked and fueled meaningless answers. I hacked up ideas that had to be flushed... several times I vomitted up philosophies that just wouldn't sit well inside me.
Months and months of this lingering dis-ease and the Spin Doctors never seemed to prescribe anything but trite pacifiers that would inhibit any discussions beyond the daily ingestions of Bush policies gone amock. My mind spinned and swirled, but deep within I just knew there had to be something that I could think that would bring a sense of ease to me, short of becoming an all out misanthrope... something that would not sit well within either!
I even took my first voting pill, in hopes that this radical departure from my norm would bring my mental health back... but even that drug failed me miserably. I relapsed into an even greater depth of my Political Flu. Again, I searched the possible cures - mainstream medias and alternative medias, internet discussions, comments from friends and associates... all to no avail. The answers were merely placebos... opinions each and all.
I finally reached my low point and decided that it was up to me and me alone to regain what semblance of sanity that I had left. I refocused on the world stage... a very necessary thing for me to do to get healthy again. This Political Flu had to be beaten and beaten good.
I had to come to grips that my voice is what it always has been - a lone voice in a wilderness of many. I am not anything but one of those tree-hugging, hippie-type, birkenstock-wearing, left-leaning, freedom-loving, Zen Crazy Clouds that 'threaten' our modern day society, but given the acceptance of it I find that I can now smile with my self-acknowledgement of what I am and with this acceptance I can quite calmly see -
(1) The war in Iraq was not started by me, nor will it ever end on anything I have to say or think...
(2) The America that I had invented in my liberal imaginings is but one thread in the woven blanket of the Stars and Stripes that waves way too much on the streets of U.S.A....
(3) George W. Bush is still not my President but only the President of a voting majority, of which I am not nor ever have been...
(4) The direction this country shall go is not, nor will ever be the direction that I have ever envisioned...
(5) Politics is the endgame for the rich and powerful which is something that I will never attain nor desire to attain...
(6) Voting is but an opinion between two sides, of which I am a mutiplicity...
(7) War, despite what I think or judge, is the Nature of Mankind, and all my bitching and postulating will never bring an end to wars...
(8a) My views and thoughts are but 1 out of 295 million Americans.
(8b) My views and thoughts are but 1 out of 6.4 billion humans.
(9) My sole mission in life is to live to my potential, often times against the flow of others.
(10) I'll leave it at 9, because I have other things to do in my life now that I have rid myself of the deliriun that I have been caught up in during my extended bout with Political Flu.
Thank you,
Cecil
[I used "7+1" because "8" came out as
... must've been telling me something...]
