Just for clarification, this is not about Borders Bookstores. This little blog is about the borders in our lives. The theme is not original, but it is, in fact, potentially consequential to us all. Borders are either what we embrace or consciously decide to cross. Usually, when that crossing process begins, we are teenagers seeking our own relevancy, independence and joie de vivre. Borders can be relevant demarcations that we, as a society, embrace; or not. For example, when you attempt to cross over the imaginary line between Canada and the United States, you’d better have a passport, and when you go from El Paso to Juarez, you’d better have a bazooka. Just read this warning from the Juarez Wikipedia page: WARNING: Be extremely careful in the city because of gang violence in Ciudad Juarez. Over 5000 people, including some foreigners, have been killed since the beginning of 2009. Most murders are related to the drug trade, but the city remains unsafe for anyone caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Criminal gangs that engage in extortion and kidnapping operate with near impunity. Now that’s a potentially significant border. We have borders all around us, and those borders can be very real or completely self-imposed. In fact, many of the borders that mankind has spilled blood for over the centuries have either long been forgotten or were senseless in the first place.
I often talk about the view from space where, unless the borders are made by flowing rivers or distinctive mountains or oceans, they are not visible from outer space. As societies we have agreed upon borders, but beyond that agreement, we sometimes embrace them in a completely irrational manner. Border crossings really do help us move from childhood to adulthood on so many levels. It seems that when we can decide that our toys are too juvenile, we can finally put them down and move on with our lives. (That is until we can afford more expensive and complicated toys.) When we trade Buzz Lightyear for an IPad, we know that we are crossing a new threshold, a new border. The challenge that we all seem to face, though, is when to ignore borders that may have once served a purpose but no longer make sense. Do you really want to go back to just passing notes once you’ve kissed?
Well, this Christmas, I witnessed five little kids who were securely wrapped in the magic and wonder of the season. Yes, there were more questions than usual, but they eagerly dove into the protection of the carefully laid out borders set by their parents since birth. “You must be in bed or Santa won’t come.” “You can’t get up too early because your presents might disappear. “ Unfortunately for many of us, borders which begin as cobwebs, grow into ropes and eventually morph from chains to heavy wire cable. Many times they prove to be very unhealthy for us as humans. For example, if you have extremely high cholesterol and drink two gallons of cream per day, you may only have a 50/50 chance of needing to be concerned about crossing other borders.
Bottom line? Growth comes from working half of the time in areas with which you are acquainted and comfortable and the other fifty percent in areas where you have little or no comfort; crossing those borders will make you grow.
As we launch into another new year, I encourage all of you to be more introspective; to look at what’s holding you back, keeping you from growing, and most importantly what’s feeding your soul or not? I’m also asking you to get out of the woulda, shoulda, coulda mind set and move on with your life. You can never create a better past for yourself.
Come on, take a leap across some old, unneeded borders and have a very Happy New Year!
titular: La regla suprema de su alteza Cuong V Truong cre? un personaje Nombre del actor Tom Truong para su pr?xima pel?cula de terror de la vida real de Jes?s Cristo renace: La Segunda Venida de Cristo. Es una pel?cula de la vida real sobre el hijo de Dios usando Caballeros creados por el destino para ayudar a 7 + Miles de millones de esclavos para luchar contra el diablo adoradores del culto illuminati alias (el Grupo Bilderberg).
According to several citizen-journalists, the entire area around the Grove Hotel near Watford UK and the hotel itself will be cordoned off by the local Hertfordshire constabulary in a “security exercise”. The exercise is planned exactly at the time that the Bilderberg conference is expected to take place there, from June 6-9.
I still can’t believe that the main stream media in the UK is not reporting on the gathering of the Bilderbergers. It’s only 3 weeks away for goodness sake!
On June 6th 2013 the Bilderberg group (the worlds Global elite decision makers) will meet at The Grove Hotel, Watford, Hertfordshire for a 4 day conference to decide upon: Destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities within three years, Prolonging the war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements, The threat of a global pandemic, Internet control, Diffusing austerity induced social protests, Preventing Britain from leaving the EU, Propping up the Euro to keep the Eurozone intact, Minimal 2013 economic growth, Increasing central bank power, tansferring more wealth from ordinary people to corporations and super-rich elites and Preventing a growing credit bubble from popping. You can guarantee none of the decisions made at this meeting will be in your best interest. Join the gathering army of peaceful protestors near the Hotel to have your say. http://bilderberg2013.co.uk/
On June 6th 2013 the Bilderberg group (the worlds Global elite decision makers) will meet at The Grove Hotel, Watford, Hertfordshire for a 4 day conference to decide upon: Destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities within three years, Prolonging the war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements, The threat of a global pandemic, Internet control, Diffusing austerity induced social protests, Preventing Britain from leaving the EU, Propping up the Euro to keep the Eurozone intact, Minimal 2013 economic growth, Increasing central bank power, tansferring more wealth from ordinary people to corporations and super-rich elites and Preventing a growing credit bubble from popping. You can guarantee none of the decisions made at this meeting will be in your best interest. Join the gathering army of peaceful protestors near the Hotel to have your say. http://bilderberg2013.co.uk/
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