Saturday, May 2, 2009

The underdog...horse wins the Kentucky Derby!

Mine that Bird, DOB 5-10-06, wearing #8, a $9500 horse with 50 to one odds just won the 135th Kentucky Derby!
Calvin Burrell, from Louisianan was the jockey.
That’s what makes America great, nah, but does make it a quite bit more interesting with these little pearls of hope for the rest of us to succeed beyond whatever obstacles come our way … a true rag to riches story.

Why is that something that makes us all enjoy life?
Don’t we all get that smidgen of expectation from our own trials and tribulations watching the underdog win?
Compassion and understanding for what anyone has had to go through to achieve something just past their reach is so honorable, and who can’t agree with the refreshing warmth of that knowledge gives to all of us.

More than likely that’s why so many enjoy films about sports figures that all have come from behind.
Now we are in another great depression in our history, and hope is needed and becomes tangible when seen in these ways. It’s the only thing many still have.

We need more inspiration on TV and movies, not necessarily religious, but showing where people have come from and how they pulled themselves up from their bootstraps.
Good old fashion stories with moral issues that we as a nation/world can relate to.

As heartwarming and cliché as all this seems to you I want to ask you fellow world residents…why not?
I know Slumdog Millionaire just won many Academy Awards, and It’s A Wonderful Life plays yearly over and over again, but doesn’t that sound like there should be more?

If these epitomize what we really want, I say why not?
Pound out those scripts people we need your input, quickly I must say, even TV and the movie studios are running on low finances!

On that thoughtful note, but perhaps slightly negative I will bid you good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

PS H1N1 case confirmed in the state of Florida have grown to several counties

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