THE WAY I SEE IT . . .
By Bill Horton
3/2/2008
It feels as if Jimmy Carter is back or something. Our circumstances don’t seem too bad but you think your neighbor might not be doing so well so you think everything is going to hell in a hand basket. Is it bad for you? Is everything going bad everywhere?
I don’t think so. I still think America is great. I see promise not doom and gloom. Sure, I could watch the news and see what Wolf Blitzer thinks but he is getting paid to tell you the world sucks unless you vote for Hillary or B. Hussein Obama.
I don’t care what they say. This is the country that has Chuck Yeager. That has to be good!
We are heading into an election that doesn’t look too promising at best.
An imagination can save a kid still today. If a kid can imagine it then the kid needs to be encouraged to go do it! If you can think it, you can do it. It cannot be done behind the controls of a Playstation though.
Kids need the drive to go farther, faster, stronger and better. If they think “it don’t matter” it simply won’t.
Sure call me what you like. Dreams make the world a better place. Pessimism makes losers feel better, look how pessimism makes a dreamer look when the dream is realized though. That’s right, it looks amazing for the dreamer to win or achieve because everyone else thought it couldn’t be done.
Schools spend so much time these days telling kids what they can’t do. I don’t mean to say make them all starry eyed fools that think they can breathe water but teach them the importance of imagining something and working toward a goal or dream. If they don’t accomplish the big dream there are things along the way that can be pretty satisfying.
I saw most of the old movie “The Right Stuff” this morning and I just got a little carried away. Astronauts got me through my school years and beyond. Flight and flying have kept me enthusiastic and upbeat about accomplishing just about anything.
Isn’t there something out there that grabs the imagination anymore? I bet there is.
