Is That All There Is?

We took a ride out to see and take our first trip across the new Nevada/Arizona Border Bridge.  We sat in a line of cars that must have been 4 miles long for about an hour waiting our turn.  Once we got there, the actual trip across the bridge took about 15 seconds and you couldn’t see a damn/Dam Thing.  Nothing but a concrete wall on each side which was so high that all you saw was sky. Once you cross that bridge so quickly, without any hoopla or dramatic fanfare it can very easily bring one obvious  thought or mindset,  “Is that all there is?”

 If you didn’t know it, you would have thought it was just another gully jumper bridge, not a bridge that took four years to build and millions to make.  There was no way to tell that you were on the tallest man made bridge ever made that stands 900 feet off the surface of the Colorado River below.  

In this case, you don’t get the full impact of the magnificence of the bridge unless you step back and look at it from a different perspective.  Its then, when you look at the new bridge from another viewpoint that you say “Oh my God, look at that, that’s amazing!

Then, I got to thinking about how we perceive other things in our lives.  One of them  being our freedoms that we have living in our country.  I listen to the news each evening where they talk about what is happening “over there”. How the people of some countries are being treated, by their own governments or leaders. There are still places on this earth where your lifestyle or way of living is already set in stone from the moment your draw your first breathe.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Perception,

Think about it, how fortunate we are to live in a country where we have so many choices.  A country where we are able to pick how, when and where we are going to live and are given the opportunity to attain what it is we want out of life. The fact that we have these choices were not easily attained.  They were fought for and died for by men and woman who felt that having these choices were worth their sacrafices. 

 Unfortunatley, some people feel that our politicians have the ability to control what it is we can or cannot achieve in life. They feel that the policies and guidelines that our fore fathers put in place are being abused to the point that we no longer have control of our own decisions. To me, these perceptions are only a way for those in  finding ways of trying to  apply  their own expectations of what a government should be.                   

Yes, we do have the freedom of speech but that does not mean that we need trying to force our perceptions on our neigbors, trying to change their perception of our country just to attain ones own wants and expectations. In trying to make our politicians the source for all of our problems we are only making excuses since we are the voters who placed each and everyone of them there. Then of course to you who immediatly cry "I didn't vote for him".  Well, the majority did, if your canidate had been put in their place I can almost guarantee that then, the problems causes would be shifted to another source.

Perception is only a word for how one looks at something. It can be used either in a positive or negative way.  It can also be used to set one’s goals in life. A person will only rise or fall to the level of expectations that they set for themselves.  

How and what you choose for yourself to do with your life and what you want to attain in life should depend on you and only you.  Yes, good advice is priceless, but the final decision needs to be yours.

 Every once in while we each need to take a step back and look at your life and where your heading.  My father use to say a person needs to find a tall hillside every once in a while, sit down and have a good talking with yourself. If one continues down life's path without checking their direction occasionally, you can easily become lost.

The old saying ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’ is still one of the most important rules that can help you make it through life.   If you do that, then there should never be a time or place when you find yourself saying “Is that all there is?”