That's Me!

A slow day. Sure, it’s Saturday, but I’m retired and that shouldn’t make a difference any more. The days of the week should be the same now, but it’s an old habit and hard to break.

I have been wandering about the political blogs this morning, plus the news feeds, and I found this article from the Washington Post. The author has captured my feelings exactly. Well, almost exactly. I have to leave myself some wiggle room if he goes off the deep end somewhere along the line. But yes, I’m a ‘disaffected voter’. He refers to us as, "restless and anxious moderates," or RAMs. Most come from the third of the electorate that identifies itself as independent…”

He goes on to describe ‘change’ and how the candidates seem to miss what that means. Of course that makes me think of how I see change as compared to others my age. And it’s a real quandary for me; I welcome change, I love it, and yet I also love the security that comes with everything being the same. So, I know it’s a battle…sigh.

In my opinion, fear of change is what distinguishes the elderly from the elders. The conservative from the liberal. The bright from the dull. Fear of change cripples you mentally. Think of all of the American ‘heroes’; we don’t revere one that was afraid of change. Who are the movers and shakers in the world? Those who change things! There are no statues of people who wanted to keep the status quo.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. - John Maynard Keynes