the challenges of yesterday never fully disappear
Yesterday was not nearly as challenging or grueling as I thought it would be. Consequently, when I went to bed last night, I felt a renewed sense of vigor. Yet though today has gotten off to a better start, does that mean it is time to grow complacent?
Though the language has changed --and neededly so-- the problems have not. The problems, it seems, only mount in an ever-changing, ever-connected, ever-technologically driven world. What used to be "imperialism" is now "globalization." I'm not saying I've white-washed things quite the way Huckleberry Finn has been recently white-washed (to remove the word "nigger" and put in its place "slave"; to remove the word "Injun" and put in its place "Indian"), but I am saying that I believe these "tonal shifts" as I labeled them yesterday matter a great deal.
I'm not sure what today holds in store, quite honestly. I think tonight might be a challenge to the new orthodoxy. Less than a week old, and already the first major crisis is occurring. Though, to be fair, I had initially labeled yesterday as a crisis day. What gives? Am I prone to exaggeration, or am I merely preparing myself for the worst in order to allow a cushion to fall back upon?
Regardless of what is occurring, I like that, as of the current moment, I have risen to the challenge. I am taking my vitamins. To borrow an old metaphor from 2006: I have not only decided to take the vitamins, but I have purchased them and begun taking them. I am working on my well-being, for once in my life.
I hope today doesn't thwart the new orthodoxy. But should I be labeling it as such? Just because the language changes, are we ever really free of the burdens of yesterday? Anyways, time to go ponder these questions and more...
Though the language has changed --and neededly so-- the problems have not. The problems, it seems, only mount in an ever-changing, ever-connected, ever-technologically driven world. What used to be "imperialism" is now "globalization." I'm not saying I've white-washed things quite the way Huckleberry Finn has been recently white-washed (to remove the word "nigger" and put in its place "slave"; to remove the word "Injun" and put in its place "Indian"), but I am saying that I believe these "tonal shifts" as I labeled them yesterday matter a great deal.
I'm not sure what today holds in store, quite honestly. I think tonight might be a challenge to the new orthodoxy. Less than a week old, and already the first major crisis is occurring. Though, to be fair, I had initially labeled yesterday as a crisis day. What gives? Am I prone to exaggeration, or am I merely preparing myself for the worst in order to allow a cushion to fall back upon?
Regardless of what is occurring, I like that, as of the current moment, I have risen to the challenge. I am taking my vitamins. To borrow an old metaphor from 2006: I have not only decided to take the vitamins, but I have purchased them and begun taking them. I am working on my well-being, for once in my life.
I hope today doesn't thwart the new orthodoxy. But should I be labeling it as such? Just because the language changes, are we ever really free of the burdens of yesterday? Anyways, time to go ponder these questions and more...