For anyone and everyone who may occasionally stumble onto this page… you noticed it was down.  Now it’s back.  There are a lot of reason’s, mostly, life’s too short to not speak your mind.  Secondly, you can call it inspiration from a peer that had no idea they were inspiring me.

For too long my generation has flat been confused.  Confused may be a bad term, naive, lacking discernment or just plain ignorant could be potential “fill-ins” to that gap.  I’ve worked with people my age who are scratching and clawing their way to promotions just to fail because their stupidity and immaturity is working itself out in the very manner they believe will propel them to the next pay level.  I’ve also spent time with people who have only ever held one job and think they’ve got life locked up and figured out and fail to see the real world around them and the knowledge and experience surrounding them. I’ve talked with enough people across the country my age to also know that my generation is one who views themselves as entitled to respect for no reason other than the fact they want it.  Respect and attention.

Something has to change.  While I’m not believing that my blog (or blob as it could be!) will actually change society, maybe, just maybe, it could help wake up one person to the facts that respect is earned, knowledge may be learned but discernment is NOT an automatic byproduct, and that we really can learn from those older than us (both living and dead).

Hand in hand with this is the idea that there are absolute truths.  Truths that you can firm stand on, can unashamedly hold to and truths that transcend culture, current day fads and movements and truths that never need to be re-examined to find their validity, but rather plainly taught within any culture such that the listener can appropriately apply to daily life.  

I also believe that despite what the press would want us to think, that my generation should not be characterized by a bunch of lazy, arrogant saps in society!  I also think that the idea of my generation being composed by a majority of people pushing away rational, objective thought is the prodding of the minority of “thinkers” that choose to try and redefine (perhaps subtly) certain objective, historical truths that their will cannot bend to.

So why write again – Life’s Too Short.  There has to be some voices for my generation that are rational, objective and mainstream.  Too often the minority is the loudest foghorn and the majority starts to believe their being overrun!