Good morning, Digital Neighbors!
One of the first things I shared upon beginning At Padre’s was this story on perspective and attitude. While those may not be the most important things in life, they are very fundamental to your daily well-being and interactions. A good perspective and a grounded and hopeful attitude will yield far better results than being a pessimistic “realist” and self-congratulatory cynic.
It is very easy to be pessimistic and cynical, the world is a mess, people are typically lazy, stupid, and too self-absorbed. Many people settle for less on a daily basis because there is little or no striving for more, there are few who understand that today’s sacrifices can yield tomorrow’s harvest. Even when we look at ourselves, we do not see perfection, and most if not all have complicated personal and familial histories. No one is a prisoner to their past, but if you don’t know how it shaped your life you may well cut off your roots in your zeal to be better.
Look at WOKEISM as a movement, it is not a reform of the failures of the past, it is destruction of the past and a supplanting of it with a “better” way of relating. It claims equity, inclusion, and diversity while it consistently blames the past, wants to enact vengeance on those seen as “privileged” and want to limit or exclude those seen in the past as having advantages through a filter of grievance. You cannot yield a harvest of gratitude from a field of grievance; you cannot build a thoughtful future while you mindlessly destroy the past. You can only help that which you love. Well enough of this, on to today’s story on perspective.
