This may seem like a random topic. To me it's something that means so much and yet people take the act of choice, for granted. Now I will start of by saying that I have not always made the best choices in my life. There are plenty of people and maybe even a cop or two that can attest to that statement! I digress though.
Choices that we make everyday not only affects us, it affects others as well. It goes back to that old adage of our actions have consequences. I believe we do make a choice about everything we do in our lives and we are the drivers of our own destiny. The reason for this topic tonight is because at the end of the day, whether it's politics, religion, friends, family or work. We as individuals always have a choice.
A gentleman recently came out as gay and is a professional athlete. I am sure it is hard being in the spot light and a big star for anyone to voice something so personal. A famous gay rights activist once wrote, "If they know 1 of us, they are more likely vote for us and support us." (something to that effect).
Now, this is not about coming out and telling everyone who you prefer to sleep with, mainly in the grander scheme of things, it does not matter. What matters is that he made a choice. Some critics have questioned if he will even have a job next year. I dare say he did so he could keep his job. I do not follow NBA as in most professional sports I believe they are overpaid brats. Most of them complain about what they do not get and then there are a handful that spend a lot of extra time working with kids and good causes. This NBA star might have been towards the end of his career. He might have known that maybe he was about to be put out to pasture. Forced to retire. Maybe he came out to almost protect his job for a few more years. The scandal would be horrible if he was let go and not rehired. The liberals would be all over it and scream foul! (pun intended).
Choices, we all make them and those that have learned from their pasts have hopefully made wiser choices as they get older. The next example I would like to use is our POTUS. If you have not figured out by now, I am conservative. I do not hide who I am and gladly tell people if they ask. Our POTUS decided to give national praise to this NBA star for his coming out of the closet in what must have been tough times. I only wish that the POTUS had said the same thing about the numerous men and women who fight for that NBA stars right to come out.
The POTUS chocies what is said very cautiously. If anyone believes that anything is done in D.C. in a hap-hazard manor is mistaken. Everyone there just like your neighbor at work, makes choices. Sometimes they are made to drive a certain outcome. Sometimes choices are made to prove a point or to just see how some people will react. That is all fine. Remember though, choices have an affect on you and those around you.
Choosing to support certain beliefs and ideas helps define and shape who we are as individuals. So when some people choose to make certain statements or choose to support a certain individual. If you do not agree, ask yourself why? What is it that bothers you most, that they choose something so off the wall different then their own personality. Or is it that the choice they made truly reflects that persons character. If we want to continue to be taken for our word, and that we are here for the good of man. Then we must start looking at the choices people make, not only in our lives, but in the lives around us. This includes the choices that the POTUS makes and even talks about publicly.
Quotes are something that I love to use in speeches or in writings. I have not done a lot of those on my blog. So tonight I will close with this one. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
Choices that we make everyday not only affects us, it affects others as well. It goes back to that old adage of our actions have consequences. I believe we do make a choice about everything we do in our lives and we are the drivers of our own destiny. The reason for this topic tonight is because at the end of the day, whether it's politics, religion, friends, family or work. We as individuals always have a choice.
A gentleman recently came out as gay and is a professional athlete. I am sure it is hard being in the spot light and a big star for anyone to voice something so personal. A famous gay rights activist once wrote, "If they know 1 of us, they are more likely vote for us and support us." (something to that effect).
Now, this is not about coming out and telling everyone who you prefer to sleep with, mainly in the grander scheme of things, it does not matter. What matters is that he made a choice. Some critics have questioned if he will even have a job next year. I dare say he did so he could keep his job. I do not follow NBA as in most professional sports I believe they are overpaid brats. Most of them complain about what they do not get and then there are a handful that spend a lot of extra time working with kids and good causes. This NBA star might have been towards the end of his career. He might have known that maybe he was about to be put out to pasture. Forced to retire. Maybe he came out to almost protect his job for a few more years. The scandal would be horrible if he was let go and not rehired. The liberals would be all over it and scream foul! (pun intended).
Choices, we all make them and those that have learned from their pasts have hopefully made wiser choices as they get older. The next example I would like to use is our POTUS. If you have not figured out by now, I am conservative. I do not hide who I am and gladly tell people if they ask. Our POTUS decided to give national praise to this NBA star for his coming out of the closet in what must have been tough times. I only wish that the POTUS had said the same thing about the numerous men and women who fight for that NBA stars right to come out.
The POTUS chocies what is said very cautiously. If anyone believes that anything is done in D.C. in a hap-hazard manor is mistaken. Everyone there just like your neighbor at work, makes choices. Sometimes they are made to drive a certain outcome. Sometimes choices are made to prove a point or to just see how some people will react. That is all fine. Remember though, choices have an affect on you and those around you.
Choosing to support certain beliefs and ideas helps define and shape who we are as individuals. So when some people choose to make certain statements or choose to support a certain individual. If you do not agree, ask yourself why? What is it that bothers you most, that they choose something so off the wall different then their own personality. Or is it that the choice they made truly reflects that persons character. If we want to continue to be taken for our word, and that we are here for the good of man. Then we must start looking at the choices people make, not only in our lives, but in the lives around us. This includes the choices that the POTUS makes and even talks about publicly.
Quotes are something that I love to use in speeches or in writings. I have not done a lot of those on my blog. So tonight I will close with this one. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
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