too much pessimism about everything in America/part 1

too much pessimism about everything in America/part 1

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

advice to self, the glass is always 50/50%


I know things are bad attitude wise here when I am one of the more optimistic eyes on the American scene. So many look for the bad in everything.

The jobless rate goes down and we are told by doubters that its just more crummy jobs. Obama care enrollments go up some and we hear " ah yes, but the cost of the premiums is discouraging." You know the rest I won't continue the list except that the stock market is at an all time high; yes but it will only go down soon and then the real trouble starts, it's 1929 over and over.

Complaints about the economy and the American way of life are the new " attacks on sin" as practiced by the puritanical element of all societies world over. Once someone has been there and done it all they immediately began to preach to others that the trip was wrong.  They say don't do what I did, its not really what it seems.

Make your own happiness. Don't rely on others for your confirmation.

Don't covet what you don't need or really want. Be satisfied with a handful. Get off the merry go round of American greed.

Life here is good sometimes and bad sometimes. Help others but don't make things worse with qualifiers, power trips through skillful control of language,  and,  just chill out dude.

The American way is entrenched, yes it could end, it could go away and never be the same but it's not likely to happen in your life time.

Brides still want rings, Young men still want women, families still want children and children still want to run and play. Parents still have to work and the fruits get unjustly rewarded sometimes.

Everybody has anxiety about finding their way in the world and the world isn't easy.

Many of us were dosed with fears as children.

 Let todays children see the world as full of possibilities. Don't dose them with doubt before they can understand and discern the system they live in.