Swallow this:Life Expectancy - 47 years
Wars/Battles - WWI, II, Cold War, Korean, Vietnam, Stalingrad, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missle Crisis, Iraq, Pakistan, Desert Storm
Threatening Diseases - Polio, Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Pneumonia, Influenza, HIV, Cancer, Heart Failure
People like - Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Picasso, Babe Ruth, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Henry Ford...
The Great Depression - Nuclear Weapons - Establishment of 5 US States - Communist China - Landing on the Moon - The Transistor (and all that is computers) - Internet - Plastic - Haley's Comet (twice) - Parachutes - Titanic - Crossword puzzles - Grocery Stores - Daylight Savings - Commercial Radio Broadcast - Women Gain Right to Vote - Prohibition - King Tut's Tomb - Talking Movies - Winnie the Pooh - Bubble Gum - Mickey Mouse - Sliced Bread (not a joke) - Dictionary - Pluto - Air Conditioning - Splitting an Atom - FDRs New Deal - Monopoly - The Hoover Dam - The Panama Canal - Manhattan Project - Mount Rushmore - T-shirt - Microwave - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Flight around the World - Color TV - Disneyworld - Sputnik - McDonalds - Velcro - Berlin Wall - Olympic Games - Oklahoma City Bombing - Mt. Saint Helens - Y2K......
And she always tells me, "If we would all just take responsibility for ourselves, where would this world be? Yet we can't even do that..."
Is it so simple? Are you taking honest responsibility (integrity) for yourself?
Is it so simple? Are you taking honest responsibility (integrity) for yourself?
2 comments:
After last week in which I worked and did absolutely NOTHING I realized that something needed to be done. As far as being responsible for the explicit actions we do-this is obvious-but not so much when we just hang out and coast through life. Yes, we may still be "living", but as the old cliche goes-we are not living to life's full potential. I needed to hold myself accountable for being lazy and succumbing to the earthly life, and transition myself into not taking life for granted while striving to improve my journey on becoming a better and more successful human being. In order to accomplish this I turned to Mr. John Lawhon. He says, in order to accomplish to personal goals in our life, we need to: a) clearly define the goal or task at hand, b)know where we are at right now, c)develop a Personal Plan of Action, and d) follow through with that plan of action. BRAVO! This is being responsible in our choices. If we want to be responsbile for our actions and become better citizens and human beings, we need to take ownership of our actions, use goals to see where those actions can improve, and apply a Personal Plan of Action to achieve those goals. Not as easy as it sounds, but in order for us to be responsible human beings we need to look at all the areas of our life and apply a PPA.
So, I was gonna post this comment last week, then got pulled away by work and forgot about it.
Hang on, lemme go track down the link...
...sweet, I'm back... got lost reminiscing in old xanga posts. Anyway, my own great-grandmother died just before her 95th birthday, when I was maybe 15 or 16, I don't remember exactly. A couple of years ago I had some thoughts along lines similar to your post, which I recorded here:
http://www.xanga.com/madman_across_the_water08/484736720/wir-sind-die-jungen.html
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