Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Influence...

Influence is to have power, to apply pressure, to sway an authority, wielding some weight and taking control, manipulating, or persuading and inducing, talking into or win over, and having an effect or inspiration that projects an impact to stimulate change and may have some bearing on to inspire to shape the outcome! TA DA!
Wow, I want some of that.
In reality, we as Baby Boomers believe that in our deepest desires that we do have that ability to change things, therefore behaviors or attitudes or human nature or the world or beyond! Well, not beyond, but you all know what I mean…
Whether dealing with our children as they grew or at our jobs or our grandkids or the powers that be, even our government.
We feel that our vote counts as much as our opinions… are we living in a dream-world; I ask you?
Nah! I say!
I have heard it told that only one person has the ability to change the world…and we are all still looking for that one being!
And no, I am not referring to a deity of any organized religion, or the Messiah, or what-have-you, no this will be a mere mortal…
Not so mere we all say! I hear you!

Immediacy is what is occurring this evening as I write this since perhaps just after four P.M. the networks locally took over our general programming to let us know that our extremely wet weather is of primary concern and for lack of a better way to say it… THE WEATHER IS OUR ALL CONSUMING NEWS this evening…
I must admit rightfully so, no argument here, no way.
But this proves my point for us even without cable or satellite or a Dish, what-have-you when there is news the stations take over our airwaves and so we get it, all of it!

Rain can be refreshing or worrisome as so many times it is in our hurricane season, and yes, we still are in that not so happy season until November 30th … Rain can bring lightening, thunder and heavy winds, as in tornadoes and no so far so good, although we were under warnings and watches for those nasty extreme fellows… Fortunately, this appears to be just a BIG RAIN MAKER, thankfully!
You see, with all this water around us, being on a peninsula especially, we get what is known as waterspouts that stay over the water but if, and now this is a BIG IF, if it, that waterspout, comes ashore it turns into a tornado!
Then we have a BIG problem, since there aren’t any basements here in most homes in Florida due to a very high water table that is the aquifer, what-have-you… safe rooms too are few and far between and I might suggest but I could be wrong mostly for the wealthy? To me, though, they should be included as mandatory in any new construction anywhere in the world!
Sure, they have nasty horrid weather too!
It’s obvious that there is other news around the world and we get that in on our networks here nightly at six-thirty P.M. and yes, it took over and moved on to national and international news and we actually have our rain system temporarily under control, at least here where we are… amazingly like they all knew that, it did stop for now.
But our local weather professionals said it will take breaks but continue on into the night… getting heavier perhaps by the later hours between ten and midnight!
I would normally be asleep by then, most nights but not every night… tonight I may stay up to watch and wait and make sure that we will be okay…
You all know that Mother Nature is one of those things that we have no ability to control, therefore, no influence over… how sad that we of so much power to possibly change the world for the better cannot still do a thing about the weather, and yes it is frustrating and maybe someday that will change…
Heaven knows we have plenty studying the idea, but these scientists are in the many of others who are trying hard to cure many diseases and on that front we seem to have too far to go too… although, many say any day now.
Then why are they gouging consumers in the price of the drugs to help them?
Sadly, is it to who’s benefit to cure us?
I wonder… what mere mortals can do?
Nah, it will happen because we will make them do it with our power of making them know how much we have to survive… no one seems to have any real influence over these people that literarily hold lives in their hands, hmm?

Confusing, but aren’t I always, but you also must admit that some of this is thought provoking too?

We will have to wait but please hurry, some are dying to know your answers…

On that truism of life allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all of your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS on the weather we do also get those scrolls on the bottom or sides of regular programming screens whenever we need to know, how thoughtful of the local networks, hmm?

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