Passing The Torch From To Old
I believed years ago that my leaving the existence that I knew in another State and another time would give me the peace and serenity that I had been hoping for all my life. Just like many people dealing with a disability or condition, I was tired of the feeling of disbelief in the “system” and the ridicule that never ended in my life. I remembered explicitly the faces of those that I loved and cared for in the mirror of van as I drove away. The feelings of sadness and sorrow were replaced by the countless corn, wheat and soybean fields and the occasional farm, which dotted the landscape as I drove farther and farther south into the wide flowing prairies of the blacklands with dotted herds of buffalo and longhorn cattle as far as the eye could see.
The visions of what my life would be like once I arrived in my perceived utopia. What I faced upon my arrival could be most definitely be best described as that of the music video produced by REO Speedwagon “One Lonely Night” where there was just that; A Lonely Knight transported from the 13th century to that of present where he tried to desperately understand what was shown to him at that time. He felt out of place, lonely and frightened of what he did not understand. That is how I felt at the time when I reached Dallas and seen such a wonderful but foreign world.
19 years later and hopefully wiser, if not just maybe I am possibly a bit more worldly and can pass what information that I have gained to my children; the next generation that will be in charge of changing how things will be operated in years to come. I hope that they will at least heed my words and at least use the understanding that I have gained to not repeat the mistakes that I have made in the past. I, years before had the insight to not do some of the things that were done and shown to me.
All of us know that we have our certain problems that we deal with on a day-to-day basis. It would be ludicrous to think that we live in a fairytale land where everything is cake and ice cream for all. Bottom line, if we recognize things for what they are rather than what we want them to be, then we will not be doomed to repeat the past.
SIK
The visions of what my life would be like once I arrived in my perceived utopia. What I faced upon my arrival could be most definitely be best described as that of the music video produced by REO Speedwagon “One Lonely Night” where there was just that; A Lonely Knight transported from the 13th century to that of present where he tried to desperately understand what was shown to him at that time. He felt out of place, lonely and frightened of what he did not understand. That is how I felt at the time when I reached Dallas and seen such a wonderful but foreign world.
19 years later and hopefully wiser, if not just maybe I am possibly a bit more worldly and can pass what information that I have gained to my children; the next generation that will be in charge of changing how things will be operated in years to come. I hope that they will at least heed my words and at least use the understanding that I have gained to not repeat the mistakes that I have made in the past. I, years before had the insight to not do some of the things that were done and shown to me.
All of us know that we have our certain problems that we deal with on a day-to-day basis. It would be ludicrous to think that we live in a fairytale land where everything is cake and ice cream for all. Bottom line, if we recognize things for what they are rather than what we want them to be, then we will not be doomed to repeat the past.
SIK