What will 2009 bring

Well, as 2008 concluded. I am filled with a sense of cautious hope or should I? After all no matter how bad everything looks, one can hope, because without hope, nothing happens. I am asking myself, what am I really looking forward to? What is hope? And what do we hope in? A recent tag line in the movie "Kung Fu Panda" said it best: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that is why it is called present". This is indeed profound when we really think about it. No sense in worrying about what is going to happen. If you are healthy, got your bills paid, still married, and kids not failing or in drugs, I say you are enjoying the gift of today. Is this then hope? Do we relish the fact that today all things are well so we are well?

President Obama cannot solve the problems created by bad policies of the past. What is in danger is the heart of the free man. As people become more drunk on apathy and less worried about freedom, socialism creeps in. The frog that eventually dies in pan of water that is being slowly heated to boiling point, is no different than the frog struggling to get out of the snake's mouth. Both will die, one just doesn't know that he is dying, while the other is well aware of his pathetic situation. Which frog is better off? I guess when free loving people don't care anymore, it really doesn't matter does it? When you forget the exhilaration that comes from accomplishment of one's hard work, and the momentary rewards that follow, then nothing matters. It matters not who you are, because you don't care what happens to you or anyone. It matters not what you do, because there is no reward for the one that does and the one that does not. The process of dehumanizing society to move to mere existence is socialism. But hey, there is hope and that is why we all need hope. We hope to persuade the other side once again of our ideals, we hope to promote free enterprise again, we hope for capitalism to triumph again, we hope that people of all walks of life will be able to better their economic, spiritual and family situations again, we hope for peace and prosperity for all. We HOPE. And hope is good.