The fight of solitude

We as people have the ability to adapt, overcome, and adjust. The blessing is that we are able to deal with life issues and heal from the battles fought. We are ill we get well, we are fired from positions, we find others. We marry and divorce that is the trouble some area. Finding relationships again. there is no formula for this. The number of dating sites on the inter net and television tell the story. How many people are gong it alone these days? What and who can we allow in our inner circles, the soul that cries out at night, the need for the warm fuzzy even if it just a phone call?? It is a journey that is full of ups downs pain and sorrows: it is the flight of the solitude. This flight or journey has lots of trials, life is like this. Many are the times we will experience the hurts and despair living brings. Not the temporary set backs or losses but the real breakdown of life itself. The experiences that as the philosopher said: if it does not kill us we will be stronger". The point is that we were strong to begin with which is why those encounters do not kill us. The fact is life is all about the solitude we face everyday. The decisions we make good or bad, right or wrong;life is living to the best of our potential. This lost on this generation of youth and younger adults. It is amazing to me that this generation has access to more information than anyone or other generation, information available at the touch of a button or on television, yet we find that they are for the most part unprepared and inept. This does not bode well for them as they approach maturity without a well defined skill set to compete in the global community. Many persons write with great regularity about our inability to compete in the world. They cite education, math and science in particular as well as a decline in writing skills. There is however no definition as to why this has happened. I argue that it is not the dumbing down test or the loss of prayer in schools (more on another blog) I believe our decline has to do with arrogance. The arrogance that believed the world would never catch up, the arrogance that this was the American century; the dominance of Pax America especially after world war Two. There was a time when the world was in recovery and the only place was the United States. Those days have ended friends and enemies alike are now competitors and they do it better. Their goods and services are of such quality that we now run trade deficits in the trading world. Their workmanship is such that buy America a standard of the past is just that: the past. It is true that there are tariffs that do indeed make American goods non competitive that is Nationalism, however, the trend of America's non competitive spirit existed before protectionism. I believe that people buy what they want, and if the quality is there the price is secondary.

So, what does this have to do with solitude? The answer is everything. We live in isolation because we can not express an argument to convince people that our ideals are worth fighting for. We as a Nation have abrogated our place on the world stage due to the growing incompetence of leadership on all levels. Our Nation allows a lassiez faire government with no principles to flourish. There are no priorities left to fight for, in short this nation is adrift.

What we must do now is to recognize our malaise and reorder interest. The phrase change must begin to mean something to us as a collective. There has to be recognition that what we are engaged in is not working, and is not adequate for the times in which we live. In short we must water the tree of liberty not with blood of patriots or kings, but with thought. This is our flight of solitude. Thought: a concentrated effort, a struggle to retool, a mind set to be reached: all for the purpose regaining who we are. We have lost the identity which defines us as a people. It is now or never the quest for identity search lest we lose our selves and be a shadow of the greatness we proclaim we have. Later