- in the name of Allah -
This past Tuesday was one of the most fateful and significant days in American history. Besides being a day of many different firsts, it held symbolism for a new and hopeful restoration/improvement of policies and quality of living. No, we do not know what our destiny is, where we will meet our end or even from where we may derive sustenance. But, that does not stop the current of eventuality from taking us in and showing us what we did not know or could not suspect.
Among more personal and closer-to-home matters, a few recent events remind me of the binding similarity between my recent and prior experiences. It is not that life is a circle, per se, inevitably coming back to the same conundrum or falling back into the same loop one may have known before. Life is, as a friend once put it, quite linear. That we can experience deja vu is simply a testament to how well we internalize past events into our being and pick up on the nuances of what they mean for us. To summarize a case in point, I knew, in a scenario not 2 months old, that age might matter, that being a college freshman was a reason unto itself to indicate a high probability of drastic, random, unpredictable change. I gave the idea a chance, and it broke a few preconceptions of mine, reminding me that people alike can exist, perhaps as strange and unique as myself. This is reason enough to continue searching, keeping the books open, heart and mind gazing incessantly skyward to the only place I ever thought I belonged.
2 comments:
OBAMA WON!
W00-THEFRIGGIN-HOO!
You know what though? I remember feeling similarly when the Palestinian "president" finally changed.
I felt optimistic yet hesitant... It's like "ANYONE can be better than Bush... at least this one is literate"
I just hope I won't be disappointed like the Palestinian president fiasco. You don't know it wasn't that bad till it gets much worse.
Oh who am I kidding... ANYONE is better than Bush... possibly even Palin.
Anyhoo... internalize away dear friend, but don't forget to let some stuff out as well. *flower*
It's hard to find people that are unhappy with our newly recruited President-Elect.
I, for one, am not unhappy with this turn of events. In fact, I would have been absolutely miserable if the opposing party were elected. I was even considering moving out of this country.
There is an ironic and rather cynical way of looking at this election and of the past 8 years leading to it:If Bush hadn't set an example as a Republican and made our country hit rock-bottom, Barack Obama would never have become President because the majority of americans still hold on to their discriminatory tendencies. In retrospective, Bush's behavior was the catalyst that caused the american people to overcome the great cultural barrier that is racism.
and yes, my novel is moving along, slowly, but surely, the word count is increasing.
As for my Faq-or-Fics:
1- http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bush_can_i_stop_being_president
it's fiction. I was simply inspired by a ludicrous website.
2- Fact, http://www.kansascity.com/772/story/877175.html
3- Fiction :) I made everything up. But anyone outside of StL wouldn't know that :P
4- You is correct mi amigo. I don't think I need to cite that article since you've clearly read it.
Thanks for recommending my blog on the side reel there ---->
As thanks, I shall bestow upon thee one of many bitter truths about life:
An old cowboy song celebrates home on the range, where deer and antelope play, but anyone who has seen deer and antelope knows that when they are frolicking they scarcely look where they are flinging their hooves, which is why cowboys have been pummeled almost to extinction.
now of course this may not be be as bitter a truth for you if you hold no affections for cowboys, but more so for Ninjas or Pirates the way I do.
I'm sure you can tell that this truth was very easy for me to accept. In fact, I was cheering those deer and antelope on from the sidelines as I wondered what antelope were doing on the american prairie when they should be only in the savannah of Africa or perhaps Asia.
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