BEWARE!! DANGER OUTSIDE!!

Why is it that people on the TV news keep on telling me to pull down the shades and turn out the lights? Why are these bubble heads all telling me that we're all doomed? Why do they think they've earned the right to tell me how to live my life from their environmentally controlled ivory towers? Who do they think they are?

The fucking Pope?

Yes, there's danger at your door. He usually wears the disguise of a mailman. He brings you bills that are tough to pay. Welcome to wonderland. Buy a 6 pack and a lotto ticket and go home and cry into your mommie's Irish linen table cloth. Open up a pack of stale saltines and a can of sardines and crawl off to bed with the woman who can't bear to be near you anymore.

Let the world beat you down and cite statistics that show you're not the only loser. Become an expert at the crab barrel mentality. Find overwhelming proof that there's no way to go but down. Revel in your misery.

Or....

Refuse to accept defeat. Refuse to accept anything other than the best for yourself and for all those around you. Be compassionate to those less fortunate, but do not enable them to continue to be losers. Demand that they set their jaws and become determined to be winners.

Look each other in the eyes. Demand excellence. Settle for nothing less than the best from yourself and those around you. Stop going with the flow and accepting lame excuses. Step up to the plate and swing.

This Mother Earth that we temporarily live on has been spinning around the sun for billions of years. She has seen all kinds of creatures walk thru her pastures, climb her mountains, trek her deserts, swim her waters, and reproduce under her moonlight. Nothing surprises Mom, nor will anything overcome her wisdom. We're just a blip on her radar screen.

We can overcome our man made mess the same way a child can tidy up his own toy box. It's about time we start looking inside ourselves for the danger we pose to ourselves.

The danger ain't outside our doors. It's between our ears, and we're the enemy.

Grow up. Be a resilient human being. Nobody on this planet owes you a damn thing. Go out and earn it, build it, create it. Read, write, learn how to use tools and build things.

When your time on this planet is over, don't you dare believe it wasn't all right there in front of you. It was and it is.

It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Get moving.