The routine goals of life seem to have largely passed
away. That unavoidable retirement
arrives and regardless of our relative ease, we seniors experience the reality
that this time in life is about loss.
Once life was a Buick rolling along the freeway but now we ride in a
golf cart down a narrow alley. Raising a
family, working a job or a career, finding new toys and chasing a few good
times were, as we now understand them to be, little more than
distractions. Sure, they were largely
positive distractions but being busy about such things, as fulfilling as they
might have been, must surely be less than our destiny as humans? Why are we here at this hour? Why are we here at all? Is our supposed contribution to the ongoing
life mix our only reason for living? Does
life not mean more than this?
Distractions are what blocks these types of questions
for all of us, the eternal questions remain largely unexplored and routinely
avoided at all costs, even to the point of embracing destructive
distractions. This is the human
condition and our modern secularism goes further and denies the relevance of
the eternal questions. As a result, we
are reaping a whirlwind of distractions, more and more of these are negative
life destroyers. Substance abuse, greed,
the thirst for political power, narcissistic behaviors, hateful name calling,
abortion on demand, the popularity drive, acceptable life losses for others, the
avoidance of meaningful relationships and any sense of a shared destiny, all
are destroying the young and the old among us.
None of us are totally immune but it would seem that unless we are
dealing in some way with the eternal questions, we are adrift, tossed
to-and-fro without a rudder.
Human history is replete with examples of those
persons who have limited their distractions in order to attempt a connection
beyond the routine of life. Some of
these persons retired voluntarily to a place of solitude while others were
driven by circumstances to a place where distractions were few and the big
questions remained. They may have
retired to a desert, a cave or a monastery, thereby trashing what is normal,
making themselves a laughing stock, a supposed waste of a life. In our present secular world, the seeming
plight of these folk is ridiculed as failure and lunacy. Secularism tells us that we only have one
opportunity at life so be all you can be, grab as much as you can and forget
about the rules. Self-sacrifice is no
longer a noble ideal and it is alien to the playbook of humanistic secularism
which is fouling most all western cultures.
America may well be the last man standing but we too are on the verge of
our demise on November 8.
This senior has a profound faith in the American voter
to trash the distractions. We will not
be suckered. Hillary, keep mouthing them
for just thirty more days and then America will put you to bed. We shall vote for no more progressive
secularism; no more scandals; no more constant lying to the people; no more disregard
for the Constitution; no more caterpillar economy; no more unholy Supreme Court;
no more globalists meddling in America; no more anarchy on the streets; no more
politicized Justice Department, IRS, Federal Reserve and VA; no more open
borders; no more unrestricted trade that panders to big corporate donors; no
more feeding off we the taxpayers; no more radical Muslim inspired death on our
streets; no more gun control and finally, no more promises from your forked
tongue.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
