Wearing Blinders

Do you ever feel like you are walking around wearing blinders? There is so much going on around us, and yet, we tune out those things we aren't interested in so that we can focus on the things we care about most. It's a way of filtering out some of our environment. I think it's a means of self-protection and even self-preservation.

Sure, I paid attention to the elections and upheld my Constitutional Right to vote. I just didn't get bogged down with the day-to-day diatribes from the various parties or even the media for that matter. I voted based on my own beliefs and not on what the media presented in their hyped, ratings-obsessed rantings.

My husband and I voted early. We took our youngest daughter with us as she was out of school. She saw the process and I even let her press the screen to select the choices for me. When I was done, I let her press the VOTE button at the top of the machine.

As a family, we talked about voting and why it's important. It's a right. It's an honor. It's a privilege that many people do not enjoy. Our country, even in it's worst state of immorality, corruption and divisiveness is still our home. It's up to each of us as citizens to make it a better place.

And yet, we filter out what we don't want to hear or see. Those blinders come in handy, don't they? And so America declines... and will continue to do so until we learn to distinguish between needs and wants, wants and rights, rights and entitlements, and TRUTH.

~Carla Vaughan