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June 27, 2009 I have long held the view that one can play by the rules, be right all of the time and still lose. The infamous Super bowl where the Seattle Seahawks lost despite having every possible positive statistic going their way, save one, not putting enough points on the board because penalties got in the way. I am not even a football fan, but I watched that game as intently as any drama you would see in the movies. They should have won, but they didn't. I have been watching another drama...very intently. Beyond the deaths of celebrities and the way we can generate a celebrity image in a second just to tear them apart; has been the fear drama that is going around the world. People played by the rules and still lost. They lost careers through the tide of crashing markets, the collapsing of banks, retail giants, the housing sector...to the point where we are seeing cities, such as Detroit shut down, an entire city in foreclosure. RIP American automotive industry. To compound matters, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic, the unrest in Iran over a contested election and now once again we are looking at the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We still didn’t get it right in Iraq or Afghanistan. We, not as a nation, but as a global community still have not learned to get along with each other. When you line up all of the problems we are having with each other, over who has what, the limitations of personal freedoms, and the added element of fear, frustration rises. Isn't it enough? There is nothing light about what the world is going through. There can't be a mindset that says this isn't happening in my neighborhood. The world is our neighborhood. There is one fundamental fact that we must acknowledge, if we continue as we are and do not change, there will be nothing to save. All that you acquire is meaningless. What you can do for others is the only thing that has any lasting value. Ah, but what can one person do? Do what you can in your small section of the world. You do what you can and inspire others to do what they can do as well. What if the nations of the world became nations of peace? What if we stopped trying to convert others over to a certain belief system? What if we really accepted each other instead of trying to clone ourselves? We are different for a reason, yet we try to make everyone the same.
Yes, I am an American, living in South Korea, teaching and writing because those are my gifts. I have travelled abroad because I have lived my live without borders. It has made me see past all of the things that American life tends to be, which can tends to be a largely self serving perception. Note, I did say tends to be...this isn't true of the society as a whole, but admittedly, in times of plenty, even the poor don't starve. Now, the rules have changed. Yet, we forgot, we are the ones who make the rules if we are not acting like sheep.
Website: http://www.authorsden.com/marilyncampiz
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