How Strong is Your Influence?

Provocation. Yes! That is the way I will end this blog entry. The essence of this blog over the past ten weeks is highlighting the stranglehold that poverty has on shaping the minds of Americans, primarily its youths. The recent economic crisis only strengthens my advocacy for putting more urgency and time into the hearts and souls of our tomorrows. The presidential campaign for many was historical for its acceptance to wipe away the four hundred year lead one ethnicity had over another ethnicity. Nevertheless, I gathered that when people strongly unite things can change and enthusiasm about that change can be infectious.

Considering that Barak Obama is operating on the one drop rule, we embrace him for what he has adopted as his being. However, he can not stay suspended in air no longer than we hold him perched upon our shoulders. We have a lot of Barak Obama’s living right in your neighborhoods of all races. The walking wounded and lost. A lot these kids are operating with their life lines strongly rooted on the back bones of the past. There are far many more that have their tentacles latched to the backs of free handouts and instant gratifications. The irony is everyone is here in America and if he or she is successfully in the game of life the competition is healthier and more vibrant. The chances of less homelessness and poverty increases. The chances that all races have better opportunity to reach the century mark in life is good for everyone.

We are sadly conflicted with history and the past. We are sadly drawn to instant heroism to the point we create [she] heroes. Until we find solid resolutions to separate us from our past, in particularly how we cultivate our youths, we will forever be confound with our yesterdays. The clarion call that went out to Americans far and wide was change. In life change is inevitable. However, will the change that cometh of the horizon or from behind door number two be favorable to your wish list. Probably not, because wishing and making things happen are two distinctively different things. The mettle of the human is the exemplary effort that person puts in to making not just self better but that of others. Thus, the linkage of a unified chain of events strengthens the existence of everyone it comes in contact with daily.

Making yourself more accountable to you and your fellow citizenry is step one in the detachment of the past. Making yourself a positive instrument that is so infectious that people find what you have to offer to insatiable to resist is step two. Making your integrity impenetrable is step three. Be whom you say you are going to be. Making yourself live by the examples that you set forth for others is step four. No. Step five is not wishing you had lived a better life before today. Step five is be an active and positive participant in the game of life. Whether you accept your role or not, you are going to be a positive or negative role model. So, if you are going to be one, why not make yourself into the best one in town.

Your Example Could Be Inspiring

I know a young man who should be feeling good about his chances in life, but instead he has been skirting the line between jail and hell. This young man that I speak of has just turned seventeen years old and four months. He is projected to graduate high school at the age of twenty one. Sadly, they want let him stay the long. He has made his friends his priority and his family has been relegated to bystanders. His life has been embroiled in strife for as long as anyone in his family can give a clear answer. YOU might know this young man.

Similarly, this past weekend there were a teenager about the same age shot dead and his partner in crime was critically wounded with a bullet to the back. These young lads were attempting to rob a man in his own driveway, but had the joke turned on them. They might have been under the impression that they were the only persons in America with a gun. Nevertheless, there are some good examples to pull from too. I always refer to President Bush’s mother and father when I want to borrow a core family value piece. This example has nothing to do what my political belief but instead on what stock we place on family expectations. Their premise in life for their children is for the children to receive a college education, earn your millions first, and then pursue political aspirations. They know for a fact that when a child of theirs hit pay dirt, they are putting in work of high quality for the first eighteen years .

On the front end, we have to immediately become better stewards of being great parents; we can no longer settle for the good parent label anymore. On the back end, we have to snatch these lost children up by the shirt collars and put them back in the game of life. Being good means you are coming up short on something meaningful to you and to someone you love. Being great means you are hitting your mark and you are on your way to something larger than you. We have to raise the bar on expectation (s) and vigorously pursue what the heck we set out for in life. The days of aiming low with the intent of hitting something high has to be a forgone conclusion. Since we can not reattach the umbilical cord, how about just simply reach one, teach one. Our young adults can use what you are offering.