HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Another year ticks by. I heard about the 'leap second' which will make 2016 hang on for a heartbeat - what is a second right?
2016 was a year which kept me busy busy busy - I remember January, dragging her feet - and I was thinking, jeez, this is gonna be a long year. Busy has it's advantages in that, it zips by very quickly.
I can't wait for 2017 - it's supposed to be a year of promises for the world. My schedule is the same, but better since we are all in the business of getting better and not stagnating. So I am looking forward to a more manageable level of craziness.
No love lost on years gone. It's what life is about.
We move forward and we get better, in reality, not the 'hi/bye I'm good' better but truly better in our souls.
Just reading about the mess Obama is making just tells me that sometimes, having a chip on one's shoulder isn't a good thing because one skews towards being emotional and irrational. Many who voted for him or supported him did so because he shares the same minority status as they do, thus clearly voted/supported out of emotion rather than intellect.
I knew people who didn't know **** about Obama but rallied behind him, back in the day i.e. birds of a feather syndrome.
2016 was terrible for friendships in politics and although the Democrats tried to use the woman's card and race card, it failed. They had a female candidate, who lied all the way to the top. Yet, the ignorant, ignored a key character flaw and still supported her.
I thought at first, that I was the only Asian, who felt the repercussions of the US Election, when not living on American soil. I was wrong. Many of my close friends, were cautious when bringing up the subject and most were relieved to find us on the same camp.
Close as we are, one never knows what lurks behind that persona. It's a relief, to eventually find out, weeks before their polling day, that we are close friends, because we did not have an alternate persona.
As the year 2016 drew to a close, I met my closest friends for lunch, dinner - to say our thanks to each other for the friendship. I even managed to ride in a brand new car, to the furthest part of this island on a sunny morning.
I will not miss 2016, but I will remember it. It was a year, people could no longer contain their unintelligent selves from the rest of the thinking people. Why bother to make race an issue, when it's not about what colour our skins are, but more whether we have societal, moral, ethical sense.
Colour matters only when there is no other logical argument left.
Civic Education/Social Studies must continue to impress upon the school-goers that our duty must be to keep the respect and peace in our society first. We are all exposed to similar laws and thus, we should not expect liberties anywhere else.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Welcome 2017 - I've been waiting for you for a long time.
I knew people who didn't know **** about Obama but rallied behind him, back in the day i.e. birds of a feather syndrome.
2016 was terrible for friendships in politics and although the Democrats tried to use the woman's card and race card, it failed. They had a female candidate, who lied all the way to the top. Yet, the ignorant, ignored a key character flaw and still supported her.
I thought at first, that I was the only Asian, who felt the repercussions of the US Election, when not living on American soil. I was wrong. Many of my close friends, were cautious when bringing up the subject and most were relieved to find us on the same camp.
Close as we are, one never knows what lurks behind that persona. It's a relief, to eventually find out, weeks before their polling day, that we are close friends, because we did not have an alternate persona.
As the year 2016 drew to a close, I met my closest friends for lunch, dinner - to say our thanks to each other for the friendship. I even managed to ride in a brand new car, to the furthest part of this island on a sunny morning.
I will not miss 2016, but I will remember it. It was a year, people could no longer contain their unintelligent selves from the rest of the thinking people. Why bother to make race an issue, when it's not about what colour our skins are, but more whether we have societal, moral, ethical sense.
Colour matters only when there is no other logical argument left.
Civic Education/Social Studies must continue to impress upon the school-goers that our duty must be to keep the respect and peace in our society first. We are all exposed to similar laws and thus, we should not expect liberties anywhere else.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Welcome 2017 - I've been waiting for you for a long time.
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