An ancient philosopher said that you cannot lose love because it is never yours to posses. In our culture today, we practice the exact opposite: “Be Mine”,” Yours Forever” and “I’ll never let you go”. We set ourselves up for excruciating pain for our reckless commitments to love and or the individuals we confess it to. Love doesn’t have to last forever for it to be meaningful. True love doesn’t mean forever either. We live in a world of constant change and at the end of the day the only thing we can truly hold on to is our own physical self. Love is a free agent and comes and goes as frequently as the sun rises and sets. Love is evolutionary.
Riding While Black August 27, 2007
We already learned that DWB (Driving While Black) is a crime. However, there is a new crime on the rise RWB (Riding While Black). It is now against the law to switch cars in the subway, if you are a black man and commit this minor offense you will be asked to step off the train and be issued a ticket, NOT A WARNING, a ticket that then puts you at the risk of being arrested if you are ever stopped for any public nuisance again. For example: spitting in the street, taking up more than one seat on the train, urinating on a tree, etc. So, while people are being murdered, mugged, and committing suicide on New York City transit platforms and subways, please make sure to protect your loved ones from unnecessary police harassment and tell them to endure the hot sweaty train car without AC, or the stinky smelling train from the individual that hasn’t bathed in months and has urinated or possibly defecated on him/herself. The million dollar question is why isn’t there any advertisements on the train doors that say switching cars is illegal and you will be fined on all of the train doors? Because not knowing is not sufficient enough to be excused with a warning.
A Good Sale August 23, 2007
A good sale is only a good deal if you have the money to pay for it. Good sales on good credit cards often times leads to bad credit. If you let that charge sit on your credit card longer than a month your great sale item accrues great interest. So, that 20 dollar blouse after a year ends up costing you 80 dollars and it was only 50 dollars to begin with, at the end of it all you lose!Why are so many of us addicted to our purchasing power? It is the use of that power that leads us happily down a path of financial and emotional destruction.
All the Things You Won’t Do August 14, 2007
It always bemuses me how people will make proclamations and declarations about what they won’t do, but all the things that they should do they never do. I believe that all problems have a solution whether you know how to get to it or not is what makes it problematic. If a problem offers you a solution that is right in your face, it is foolish to pass it by because the steps necessary to get to the solution are more difficult than you care for them to be. Waiting for an easier solution many times makes the problem worse than it needed to be. Pride can be problematic, Ambition can be problematic, and last but not least Stupidity can be problematic. A wise person knows when to put these aside and attain the greater goal of a solution.
