…we waste time dwelling on the past because it is easy to blame ‘god’ or lady-luck or something other than ourselves for our mistakes, shortcomings, and lack of whatever we feel is scarce in our lives – sadly, in that, we lose focus of our successes too; and end up learning nothing from our experience…nothing!!!

…look around you…everywhere, everyone is afraid of everything…heck, we’re even afraid of each other – look carefully and you’ll see the politician exploiting society through fear, observe intently and you’ll see the employee shaking in his boots when in the presence of his boss – we’re afraid of change, we’re afraid of death, we’re afraid of the wealthy, we’re afraid of insects, we’re afraid of losing our jobs…we’re afraid of being ourselves…Why?

…I truly believe that everyone has the best of intentions at all times – but those who stand out from the crowd are those who take ownership of their actions – they are the ones who make confident decisions, who refuse to ‘drop-the-ball’ or ‘pass-the-buck’, who thrive on challenges, who radiate leadership – they are the ones who think about the consequences of their action (or inaction) before deciding on their response to any challenge, task, or situation…

…”Let’s collect blankets and used clothes and ship ‘em off to Afghanistan. Then let’s make those poor souls pose for the camera wearing my ‘donated’ apparel, so that I can show-off to my friends that I am fighting global poverty”…power to you…if that is your perception of reality – power to you!…please don’t send damaged and soiled junk to someone just because you have the need to get ‘rid of it’…giving lip-service to ‘fighting poverty’ is not an opportunity for the rest of us to collect ‘brownie-points’ from some dude way up in the heavens somewhere…don’t even go there…neither is our perception of ‘poverty’ anywhere near the harsh reality that it really is…we choose to oversimplify and stereotype the affliction of poverty to fit a certain ‘mold’ because we are too afraid to face up to the brutality that it is…in fact, many of us even look down on the underprivileged – yes we do!…