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Never Thought This is How It Would Be
By: pattiurlvd Date: September 19, 2020, 4:36 pm
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm retired, worked all my life to
get to this point in life where you're supposed to be able to
just kick back and relax and enjoy life. I always looked forward
to having a nice little home, nothing fancy with a beautiful
garden and all the simple pleasures of life. Well, I'll admit, I
do believe that I do have those things, but the problem here is,
now that I've reached this so called best time of your life,
it's not what I expected.
I do have that little home, a nice garden and live in a quiet
little neighborhood and relatively nice neighbors. I really
don't need anything, so why am I shaking my head saying "This
isn't what I expected."? Because I did not foresee what is
happening all around us in our country!
I thought that in my retirement years I'd spend my time relaxing
on my patio, enjoying the nature around me, going where I want
without restraints, you know, enjoying the fruits of my labor.
But instead my retirement is in the middle of some of the worst
political climate that I've ever seen in my entire lifetime, and
I grew up during the Civil Rights movement and the Viet Nam war.
Those days seem calm compared to what BLM, Antifa, and the now
dead Democrat party is doing to this country and to our
freedoms.
No, I did not visualize myself at this time of my life taking
sides, I used to think this was one country under God. But not
anymore. I was taught to love this country in spite of her
failings, she has far more good graces than failings. I was
taught to respect the flag and those who serve our country and
that includes the heroes on the ground known as police and other
first responders. I never dreamed there would be a day that you
could no longer take those things for granted and you'd be in
the middle of a war to protect all of this. Instead I really
thought I'd be able to enjoy all my freedoms in my retirement
years in peace. Little did I know how wrong I would be.
Instead of relaxing and enjoying what time there is left for me
on this earth I've been forced to pick sides and to stand up for
my beliefs and the beliefs of millions upon millions of other
Americans! I've never been one to stay silent too long when I'm
under attack or my family and country is under attack and boy
are we ALL under attack. But I never thought I'd have to be a
voice on not just the spiritual side of things but the political
as well. For many years I've spoken out for God and have written
many spiritual things, but now my retirement has been
interrupted by all the far left hatred and their Marxist beliefs
that they are trying to force on all of us!
I never thought during my retirement I'd have people trying to
tell me that I am a product of white privilege and that it's all
my fault and all like me that there's racism, when in reality I
know there's far less racism than the left tries to tell us
there is. They are the ones who are the racists trying to make
us denounce who we are to feel ashamed of who we are. We can't
control the color of our skin any more than anyone else can. I
was always taught to believe like Martin Luther King Jr that a
person should not be judged by the color of their skin but by
their character! But here I am in my retirement years having to
fight against what's become the bigotry of the left radicals!
Understand this, we do not owe anyone anything because of past
sins of our ancestors. That's anti-Biblical to begin with, you
can read that in Ezekiel.
Instead of enjoying the beautiful home my husband has worked so
hard to give me I find myself fighting against the ugliness of
those who are trying to destroy our country. I shouldn't have to
be doing this in my retirement days, but, I also cannot just sit
here and say "Oh well, nothing I can do about it." because to do
that is just as evil as those who are working so hard to tear
this country down to the ground. Remaining silent against evil
is just as evil as the evil itself. No BLM or Antifa will ever
come up to me and try to force me to admit to something that's a
lie, I'm not going to cower in a corner if someone attacks me in
public like so many have done lately. These people are bullies
and the more we allow them to bully the more they will continue
to bully innocent people. If someone were to disrupt a meal I
might have been trying to enjoy like we've seen on the news, I'd
have taken my fork and stabbed it right in their damn hand! This
crap has to stop but it's not going to stop if people just cave.
As much as I've always supported the right to bear arms, I've
never been one to own a gun, first it was because my children
were young didn't want guns around, then later in life it just
never occurred to me to own one. But now in my retirement years
that's all changed and we've purchased guns. Never thought in my
so-called peaceful retirement years I'd be forced to go out and
buy guns. But here I am.
Not too long ago, I used to love going shopping, it was fun to
drive into town and take time shopping enjoying being around
others and meeting strangers. It was something to look forward
to every week. But now, I hate it, the mask mandates, the social
distancing, etc. has brought utter disdain to me. Something I
once enjoyed I hate more than anything else in the world. It's
depressing to even leave your home anymore because it feels like
I'm living in a bad class B science fiction movie. The last time
I ventured out all I could think of was how much I hated the
world we now are forced to live in. When I got home from my last
shopping trip and I just sat down and cried "I just want my life
back."
The left has done everything it can to destroy our lives and
they're doing a pretty damn good job of it too. Hell, I don't
even watch the NFL anymore now that they fully back the Marxist
group better known as Black Lives Matter. Followed one team for
over 50 years and I threw every single one of their jersey's
I've collected away into the trash when my teams coach said he
would support his players if they wanted to protest the anthem
and flag. Bye, bye, bye guys. To me they and the NFL left me,
not me leaving them.
Again, this is not how imagined I'd be spending my retirement
years, but here I am. Fighting for every freedom that I grew up
with as a given. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom
to pursue happiness, right to bear arms, right to privacy, you
name it, I'm fighting for it because they want to take it all
and I'll at least go to my grave knowing that I didn't lie down
and take it! I will fight to my dying breath for the freedoms
the Constitution gives us as a free people!
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