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2021: Are You Moving Ahead Or Will You Be Left Behind?
Unlike some of my school friends who found schoolwork to be fast and easy and who got angry or bored when class moved too slowly for them, I never felt resentful that other kids took longer. If I finished a lesson early, I could easily entertain myself or find other things to do. I even — get this — would take time out to help others or cheer them up if they were frustrated.
And I’m not angry or bored right now. But I feel vastly different about what is taking place so very quickly around and to us.
I no longer care about the ones being left behind. They need to be responsible for themselves. My job is to be responsible for myself and what I do each day/or choose not to do.
I’m a physical empath. I also feel things and see things that are to come or that could be, perhaps — it’s why years ago, I responded so strongly to Ray Bradbury’s speeches at our local library. I can see his shining face in my mind’s eye. Hear his uplifting, forward-looking words. He said, two times, “We must never lose the imagination we had as little children.”
My heart says,
We live to dream ourselves into the world we wish.
