The media does not do a good job of spreading the truth. Even old school reporters, like Dan Rather, have a hard time taking the politics and sensationalism out of a story and just stating the facts. A lot of horrible things have happened to people over the last year. Suicide rates are up, overdose rates are up, and common sense seems to be a thing of the past.
Most news stories or heaviness are not the real story or problem of any event. You have to dig deeper. Just like in your own life, you have to dig deeper to solve the real problem. Most people aren’t asking the right questions.
When people see a severely obese person riding a scooter in a store with a basket full of junk food, people draw their own conclusions. They believe they know the answers already as to why they are in that scooter and so obese. While that is part of the answer, it’s not all of it. How does someone let it get to that point? What caused them to give up on taking care of their health? That person is not obese and, in a scooter, just because of the food. Extremely good chance there is more to the story and a source to the real problem. Solve that problem.
A teenager is out on the streets in the middle of the night. They have a weapon and are there to protect their community. Some would say not a parent or guardian alive that would approve of that behavior. There are other problems behind it and as a society we always want to seek the obvious answer. When in reality that answer is not obvious. Did anyone know the neighborhood the teen was protecting was being looted, burned, and terrorized? Does that make a difference? Most believe he probably has no respect for authority, and the reason he has a weapon at all is mind boggling. Maybe this one is put there not to solve the problem. Maybe they are there to protect who they can from vigilantes. Still solve that problem.
When grown men terrorize women at gunpoint, assault her, sometimes leaving the women for dead, the men are possibly high on drugs or running from the law. They shoot a police officer and continue to be on the run. There are multiple problems with them and all need to be solved. Start asking questions and solve the problem.
All of these situations deal with different problems. The root causes of each are rooted deep and need to be figured out. These are not cases of race; these are all stories about white people. We see the people in Walmart all the time on the scooters with the food, a young man from Wisconsin who will stand trial for trying to be a good person in his mind, and a group of men where these actions happened not 2 miles from my house here in Burleson, TX.
If you at any point put a color to these stories, you also have a problem to solve. Why are we not asking about the obesity rate of our country? Why are we allowing cities to literally burn and pretend it’s acceptable? Why are we allowing drug users, felons, and people with horrible intentions roam our streets?
We are not asking the questions to get to the real problem. We see the headline, make an assumption, and move on with life. We forget all the sensational headlines of the last year where those victims are now heroes. Forget the terrorizing of women, high on drugs, and the number of other crimes being committed to even get police involved. There are real problems behind all that and no one seems to want to solve those problems.
Real problems get solved at home first. If there is not a home or solid foundation, then many other problems arise. Not to say people from solid homes don’t do wrong. They do. I have and I admit it. A good home brings people back to be better people than what they were. Solve the real problems and you will solve a lot that is wrong with society.
Albert Einstein wrote, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
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