The Future Is Now....
In the dictionary, the word hope is defined as "the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best". And yet in our lives it has often impossible to adequately define hope, let alone to feel it and understand its potential power because it has seemed to be non-existent.
In the dictionary, the word change is defined as "to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. To transform or convert." We often fear change as something that we can't handle or that will affect us in a negative way.
This year, in this political season the words hope and change have become much more meaningful, evocative if you will. These words have been bandied about so frequently that have almost gotten almost lost their meaning and impact. For the politically cynical hope and change became buzz words this year in order to mock and yes, suppress the resurgence of these feelings.
Tonight something happened. It was the commemoration of an important event that took place 45 years ago. But it was more. It was the celebration of a political party's nomination that many thought they would never see happen. But it was more. It was a feeling that maybe, just maybe this year the politics of distraction and destruction will cease to work and that the words hope and change have finally been given new life and become something much more attainable again.
In the dictionary, the word change is defined as "to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. To transform or convert." We often fear change as something that we can't handle or that will affect us in a negative way.
This year, in this political season the words hope and change have become much more meaningful, evocative if you will. These words have been bandied about so frequently that have almost gotten almost lost their meaning and impact. For the politically cynical hope and change became buzz words this year in order to mock and yes, suppress the resurgence of these feelings.
Tonight something happened. It was the commemoration of an important event that took place 45 years ago. But it was more. It was the celebration of a political party's nomination that many thought they would never see happen. But it was more. It was a feeling that maybe, just maybe this year the politics of distraction and destruction will cease to work and that the words hope and change have finally been given new life and become something much more attainable again.
The word for this year's election should be "desparate" as in: I am desperate to see the current corrupt White House regime gone. McCain is just the same. He's a compromiser of frightening degree. He's a hypocrite and I hope the Dems play to win this time. His campain questions the Obama family's partiotism. Yet his wife stole drugs from her own charitable organization. And why isn't anyone talking about the Keating Five scandal?
I hould also use the word "hopeful." As in:
I am hopefull that Obama/Biden will represent all Americans, operate with as much integrity as politics will allow and once again make us proud of this country again.
I'm desperate and hopeful.
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