What Makes Life Worth Living on the Most American of All Holidays
I spent this week, as I spend many weeks, working at the Los Angeles Food Bank as a volunteer. We take the food donated from grocery stores and all the collection boxes around town, inspect and sort it, and box it up to go out to churches and food pantries. It’s hard work, and I don’t do it to appease my conscience or get my picture in the paper.
A lot of people come in to the food bank at this time of year and spend about 2 1/2 hours helping out because it makes them feel good about themselves. While this might seem shallow on the surface, it is important to remember that every little bit helps, and that next to nothing is always better than nothing. there are close to a million hungry people in the Los Angeles area alone, and only a small percentage of them are homeless. Many of them are afraid to ask for help, or pride stands in their way. These people, from all walks, regardless of HOW they arrived at that unfortunate place in their lives, are the reason I do this.
This year, we’ve been inundated with the mantra “Change America Needs”, while the actual meaning of this statement seems open to interpretation. In my mind, this means nothing. It’s like saying “Guns kill people” or “Life is full of contradictions”. A statement that shifts the need for responsible acts onto anything that isn’t a human being is a falsehood. A concept, country, object, or effort is not a human being, and by implying that America needs change, we overlook the actual truth, that Americans need to change.
You can say whatever you want about the white man and the Native American man, but looking back with no expressed interest in looking forward is hardly worth the time it takes to read. Would “Truth First” prefer we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving at all, or should we start trying to find a cure for something that happened hundreds of years ago? Support the truth by supporting somebody who denies their own name? ha ha…
Liberal values will always make liberal people miserable because they’re purely fantasies. Here in the real world where peace doesn’t exist and money has no conscience or faith in humanity, it is the introverted fear of death that drives the liberal mindset. The inward-focus dictates a preference to hating others because life can never be fair enough, and is thankful for nothing.
Maybe you should spend some time away from your computers; actually stand out in the cold for a day so that somebody you don’t even know might eat for a change… wear yourself out just for the sake of the worn out spirits of innocent children who deserve to learn to read and maybe have a toy to play with… act like there are bigger crisis in this world than your internet connection lagging… then you might actually get it.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, (even you, Truth First Now).
