Car Bumper Stickers Ouch!

Often when I sit at a red light I look at car plates, bumper stickers find some that make me laugh or I find one that just gets me thinking. The ones that are funny are so great for the spirit leads me to this thought...One of my favorite shows is Criminals Minds, profiling. I have always had an interest in people. I watch them when I am out much like I watch my children if you read my previous blogs. I listen to words (this tells me where their head is in life), the way people dress the prints the words, how they stand, what they drive right down to the car plates and stickers. All of this tells so much about a person. I don't even know if they realize what they are saying. Many of us do like myself. Quite sure I am not the only one.

I realize that people do these things for many reasons of there own liking and thats okay I am not here to pick or judge anyone. If I can touch one persons life by just reading my blog I have made a different in connecting with a fellow human that I share this planet with this amazing life. I hear so many people say "what can I do I am only one person, I have no money or power, who's going to listen to me anyway." Trust me when I say I promise someone will and they do. I have learned the best way to make people change there thinking is not to impose your opinion but to ask questions that make them think. Words often can go in one ear and right out the other where a question takes thought that involves the brain. That thing between our ears which includes the rest of our head. That thing that looses brain cells as we age trust me I know, LOL! As you keep reading you will learn I love to laugh at myself it keeps me healthy and balanced ...that.. I too am not perfect and the laughter just says for me...that's okay.

I remember in school the teacher saying, if you have any questions don't hestitate to ask. Then there was me sitting there with this question lingering in my mind followed by okay if I ask what if it's a dumb question. Let me tell you NO question is dumb if it's something you don't understand or need to know maybe about a word, topic, etc. NOTHING is too dumb. Let those who know go ahead laugh make there remarks but you have just grown and that's all that matters. Besides I am more than sure if they haven't already they will someday ask a question that will make someone else laugh. You are never alone in this... only alone in the moment and moments pass. So...ask, ask, ask all the questions you need to in this life it leads to growing ...that's how we build our character, wisdom and it's how we get to where we need or want to be. So guys it's okay if your traveling with your wife find yourselve lost and stop to ask for directions. The measure of a man or for that a human being is not admitting we're lost or don't know the answer to something. Keep this in mind the next time your in the kitchen and can't remember why your there! LOL there I go again are you smiling yet?

So this bumper sticker I was looking at and wasn't hard to find as they posted it up by the window of there mini-van. Right there in red and white. But as I said I look anyway...this is what it said, "have you lost your job yet? Keep buying foreign." I sat there for a second processed the sticker and came to this conclusion in the end. I did my homework to locate an answer and some common sense was added and here is my answer. Okay...first I understand a lot of people have lost there jobs, factories have laid people off and jobs are hard to find with enconomy so dry. I understand people are scared, lost, loosing things that took them years to obtain. But trust me from someone who lost everything not long ago in my life...I mean everything, imagine me in a truck with what I owned in the back and driving around in the snow with no where to land my feet. It was the first time I truly realized what little value things really have if your alive. I applied it most of my life but didn't acknowledge it till it sat right there in my lap...But that's another story someday.

So, here is my thought on the sticker.....first I felt sad for the person who posted it...they must have lost there job or knew someone close to them who did...and then they made me think...yes, think and that's important. I thought...I am not responsible for the loss of there job even if I drive foreign. Many foreign car parts are made in America and I didn't have anything to do with out sourcing jobs by driving foreign. NAFTA is the answer and who put it together and signed it..not me. No one sent anything or came to me and ask if it was okay. Just because I would choose to drive foreign does this mean I caused jobs to be outsourced. Do we have enough people in the US to make these products and who benefits from this out sourcing? So now it's time for you to think...when in life is it ever okay to get comfortable when your working for someone else and assume they will let you keep your job the rest of your life? Take care of you the rest of your life? Are you really angry because you put your trust in someone and they failed you? Did they take away your comfort zone?

I will end with this thought...there are only three people I trust in this life....my maker (this is whoever you believe may be), my spirit, and myself. In the end as we grow old we are consider less valuable. This is sad but true in America. At some point whether loosing your job, or whatever it may be I can guarentee as you grow old at some point you will have to reinvent yourself. Will you be ready to stand strong take care of yourself and do what has to be done? If your struggling right now this very minute....you are not alone...as long as your still standing your a survivor...trust in yourself.