Are You Ready?
If opportunity calls, are you ready to answer?
Not a major news story, but you may remember hearing about Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican congresswoman who thought she was being “punked” and hung up, twice, on President-elect, Barack Obama. I don’t know her and don’t even know about her, but I think her actions reflect how we are these days. Maybe not everyone, but like many of us.
Sarah Palin experienced a hoax by radio DJs a few months ago and apparently this sort of thing happens to politicians. But my question is, are we now of the mindset that we have to question everything? Are we overly suspicious when confronted with a tinge of doubt? Is paranoia now commonplace? This is the direction our brains have headed since 9/11, but that is for another article.
I may be over analyzing, but we simply miss out on so much because we are looking for the problem. We seem to be searching for big problems and small ones. Sometimes so small a problem they just don’t matter in the scheme of things, but we get hung up anyway. I learned from good country folk that if we just look for the bad we can’t see the good. Our eyes and brains can only focus on one thing at a time. I’m talking about most of us. Our ego may be wrapped so tightly around our thoughts and feelings that our true self loses out. But maybe that’s just me.
Barack Obama did something most world leaders and other big wigs don’t do and that is to go directly to the source. That’s a good thing– that’s a change. He didn’t set up a scheduled call; he was spontaneous. Not exactly like getting three wishes, the congresswoman got three chances. But do we usually get that many opportunities to make good on poor decisions or mistakes, whether they be intentional or not?
If opportunity calls, are you ready to answer?
Posted on December 5th, 2008 | Be the first to comment »