The Choice

Courage doesn't always come naturally

I’ve found it’s easy to dish dirt on most of the population that doesn’t ever stand up for themselves.  I am perplexed by just how easily people go along with things they know are “just not right.”   I had never realized just how many people are easily led until 2020.

As a military veteran, I’ll never forget my disappointment as I watched a good 90 percent or higher number of my fellow Americans fall for something that, to me, was incredibly obvious.  I remember walking to the store and seeing fearful, masked people willingly giving up their liberty for what was being propagandized to them as “safety”.   I remember the empty streets when I would defiantly go for my walks even though we were supposed to be “locked down.”  I spent a good year or longer whispering under my breath, “come on people, there are things worse than death!”

Has anything changed?

I’m not holding out much hope that Americans, or any other nation’s population, has come to their senses.  For the most part, people seem to have gone back to their old selves.  Eating, drinking, buying things they don’t need, saddling up to the trough at the fast-food restaurant to buy a 15$ hamburger, leaving the grocery store with a case of cheap beer and a couple cases of soft drinks, and doing all of the “normal” things they always did.  Naïve.  Ignorant.  Clueless. 

For those of us who are paying attention, we find ourselves a bit nervous as we hear the rumblings of “bird-flu” and the millions of fowl that have been destroyed “just in case” (even though we have a very sneaky suspicion that this is planned by the same people who have outright told us we can no longer eat meat, dairy, eggs, or poultry.  Why shouldn’t we believe them since they are the same ones that have also done so much other evil in the world over the last 4 years?).  While ordinary people ignore the calls for ranchers to wear masks when they work their livestock and biometrically tag each of their cattle with a chip (for “bird-flu” of course), those of us who are paying attention see the goal.  The trend.  The horror of monstrous plans being implemented before our very eyes.  Those of us who pay attention get ridiculed, or we hear my favorite, “I don’t want to listen to that crap, can’t we just go back to normal?”  We hear from some of our friends, “I’m not paying attention, I just want to be ready,” when, in actuality, being ready means being aware of what is being planned, practiced, and implemented on society.  (It’s kind of hard to fight against an enemy you aren’t aware of)

All the goings on in the world has me thinking about courage.  Courage to face life.  Courage to be independent.  Courage to face illness. Courage to face death itself.  I’ve been asking myself for some time, “Why?  Why don’t people have more courage?  Why are people willing to give up everything for fake promises or fake safety?”  I ask, “How is it that I walked through an airport maskless and dared someone to say something to me?”   I query my mind, “Why was I able to walk into stores that demanded I ‘mask up’ and walk out while telling them that I will no longer do business with them EVER again?” 

Well, I don’t know the answer.  I wish I had some kind of sage advice but, alas, I don’t.  The one thing I do realize is that courage doesn’t come naturally to most. Not even to me.   It is a choice.  We must make the decision that what we are faced with is less of a threat than what we will face if we *don’t* make the choice to battle whatever is on our doorstep at that moment.   And that, I believe, is what has allowed myself and a tiny minority of people to stand up to tyranny throughout the ages of humankind.  We could see that the result of not having courage would only make things worse for us down the road.  It could be the next day, the next year, or decades from that day, but we could see that being cowardly would only empower the monster we were facing. 

That’s how I see it, and that’s how I found my courage.

You see, I’m not necessarily the bravest person.  Not by a long-shot.  I loathe confrontation and any kind of situation that stresses me out.  Bad encounters with my fellow humans are something I resist whenever possible.  I don’t want to go against “authority” or be a rabble-rouser. Personally, I would like to be left alone to live my life in peace.  To be respected for my stance the same as I respect others (when rational).   But, for some reason, when I see my way of life and my liberty threatened, I am able to (most of the time) find courage that I didn’t know I had.

I guess what I’m trying to say here is, my friends, we *must* find our courage.  We are on the brink of losing everything we hold dear.  Our food.  Our choice of medical care.  Our money as we have known it.  Our affordable energy.  Our freedom to travel, and many other things that captured governments all over the world are saying we must lose “for the future” or “for the earth” or “for the climate” (While those in said “governments” continue their lavish lifestyles, of course).   This isn’t just fantasy.  The same people that pulled off the greatest caper in world history in 2020 are planning to have all of their evil organizations in place by 2030. Should we ignore them?  Should we pretend like they aren’t going to do everything they can to implement all of these things? Or should we take them at their word and start preparing ourselves mentally *right now* to find our courage?

I’m not being doom and gloom here.  Let’s get motivated.  Let’s start practicing finding our courage now.  Because, guess what?  We still outnumber these monsters by staggering numbers.  If just another couple percentage points more of us stand up, these evil monsters will have to crawl back into the devilish holes they crawled out of. We can win. But it’s going to take a lot more of us than in 2020. A lot more.

There are things worse than death.

Living in a hellish, dystopian world in which a group of arrogant fools dictate our entire lives from cradle to grave is much worse than death. 

Practice courage.