I think our experiences in life inlfuence our politics immensely. I used to be a liberal with crazy ideas, thought that pot smoking was OK, sleeping around! Didn't bother about monogamy or family values. Then, having watched my family life disintegrate, my girlfriend leave me and everything I loved just crumbling to dust, I felt it was time for a radical rethink.
Conservative values, including Christian family values, are the only base on which to build a stable society. Anything else, well, it only leads to trouble and chaos.
I've really changed my stance on a whole load of things. I'm still only 22. Nothing wrong with my heart, I hope!
Anyone?
Hi,
I have grandchildren older than you are. All I can say is I have made many mistakes in my life and seen others do the same. When all is said and done, where do you turn in the time of need? The government? You have already figured out that is a sham, the folks there are really only considered what you can do fo them. Example, look at the health care bill. Once you are old they now want to deny you care, just let you die, get you off the social security rolls.
Well then where do you turn? Most folks I know who are everything from recovering alcoholics, druggies, wayward souls that have that little thing in the back of their head called conscience, all seem to end up with church and family. There is an old saying among the elderly that there is no greater gift than the unconditional love of a grandchild. Well the reverse is true, for the young there is no greater gift than the unconditional love of a parent or grandparent. Sometimes that love is so great you must let them make their own mistakes so they can learn from them; but you will be there when they come for help and encourage them as well.
Same can be said for the church. I will never forget an interview I saw several years ago in Chicago. Ernie Banks, the baseball player, had an audience with the pope. His comment was this. "I was not with him but for a few moments when I knew he truly loved you." There are many in the church, both employees and members who indeed fit that mold.
Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, you are an adult now, you know right from wrong. You can make good choices and bad choices. Sounds to me like you have realized that and know which best suits you.
Good luck to you, sounds like you have figured out a good bit at a very young age.
regards,
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