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I agree. I may only be twenty years old but all I see all I hear are people moaning and bitching. Complaining about the state of things Whether it be on the conservative side or the liberal freetalk radio. I would like to start seeing more individuals rather fighting for other people to get what they desired acomplished. DO IT YOURSELF!! It is not long till others follow. I have matained a clean(all the yicky shit removed/presertives sugars and recently meats and eggs) I have lost 90lbs and in only 2.5 years later my friends are starting to follow as is my family. I am Tired of seeing this government feed their people diseases and then convince them that there are no alternatives. Spent alot of time bitching about it. Now I feel just in bitching about it because I am doing something about it. Where I would like to see change Is people backing their complaints with actions. Not negative actions. NO. Rather simply changes for themselves. IDK maybe I am just rambling?

right on!! it's time for us--the baby boomers babies and younger--to stand up and make the change! the world can't take much more!!! so what now? how do we get the message on it's feet and into the streets??

Wow, what a great thread George and guys,

Your passion really comes through (always neat to experience) along with the energy in this whole thread - a lot of it struck me somewhere inside and thanks for that!

Although I just recently found this tribe a bit ago (name's Tiggen btw, Tigg for short), I've been fortunate to have mentors and teachers along the way that insisted I look at where I stand, what I believe in and how do I apply my energies to any and all of what calls for my attention.

To that end I'd have to agree that somedays with the world doing what the world sometimes does, it can feel like much of the people in it rather seem to be sleepwalking in a thunderstorm as such.

It can be frustrating when I see a something that needs more than I as one person can change, fix or attend to, especially when not so many people are noticing the something that's glaringly in need of attending too. I can't fight the big battles alone and it'd be arrogant to think I can. (Which at times in the past, I'd tried. It was a train wreck at best.).

In lieu of this, since then I've come to learn that for me, example is pretty much a radical act or can be.

I've never been much of a marchin' hollerin' sign-carrying kinda' guy. Not really my gig. But I have made choices to live life cleanly, simply and with awareness of my actions, my choices . . . doing what I can to remain mindful, transparent and authentic in the day to day. I try to apply that to my politics, my activism and hopefully across the board generally.

For me, I also tend to believe that living this way which includes my truth speaks quietly but louder to the everyday people in my world than anything I could shout through a bullhorn or any debate I could get into with any one(s) about how I think the world should or shouldn't be.

(Even worse if I forget that the point isn't to be right, but to be heard.).

And granted, in living my truths and just ' being ', I don't always get it right, which is honorable in itself, I believe.

As one of my favorite and well-held slogans goes -

' Somedays the best thing I can be is someone else's bad example. '


I think the sum of it for me is to know what I'm passionate about, what I believe in, what I want to see in the world and how my choices and actions in this little piece of the universe can do or teach as part in the whole picture. And, just as important, that the world will keep spinning in those moments I don't quite get there.

Hmmmm . . . I think that's probably plenty for now, and I hope I haven't gone on too long. It's a great topic.

Again, yay for your passion - that's always a cool thing the world can always use more of. And thanks for the wake-up call. It'll keep me from dozing in the day to day . . .

Tiggen, a new hippie on the block . . .

' The Universe digs you. HUGE. Like bigtime. Get used to it. '