Op Eds

Today, I have seen two opinion ( editorial and verbal) pieces. The first one was on a clip of The View, in a segment aired on 10/6/15.

“You sort of feel that there’s not a war on women, but there may be a war on what’s inside of women,” Goldberg told Carson. “Is that accurate?”

“We are killing babies all over the place,” Carson responded. “I’ve spent my entire career trying to preserve life and give people quality of life, even operating on babies in the womb, operating all night long sometimes on premature babies. And I get to meet those people when they’re adults, and productive adults. There is no way you’re going to convince me that they’re not important, that they’re just a mass of cells.”

WOW- doesn’t that resonate with every cell in your body? Women are seeking help and the ones the turn to in their time of crisis remind me of the scene in The Little Mermaid. Did you see the scene where Ariel lost everything she thought mattered when her father destroyed her collection of Eric’s statue and all those things she picked up from shipwrecks? She ignored Sebastian and headed straight to the only person she thought could help her. Who can forget the Sea Witch scene as she sang Poor Unfortunate Souls?  She provided a service, but at what a price! It seemed like the only way, at the time, but was it? No- it turned out badly and in the end, she was given a greater gift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg

Life is full of tough choices.  (Sea Witch) The lesson in this: the ones we turn to for help, may take more from us at that time, than they give us in return.

Then, I saw the opinion in the New York Times on big universities published in the 10/6/15 edition. Imagine this: a major newspaper is printing an opinion that higher education needs to find a way to talk about moral and spiritual things while respecting diversity. WOW! The article is packed with super ideas and resonates with truth.

“Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?’ ” Line up these revered objects in a row, Nietzsche says, and they will reveal your fundamental self. ( Nietzsche- a German philosopher from the late 1800’s) Also credited with saying:

To lead a full future life, meanwhile, students have to find new things to love: a field of interest, an activity, a spouse, community, philosophy or faith. College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

Life lessons: Don’t go into debt for an education that does not give you a lifetime of value.  Don’t make a forever decision, based on a situation that can and will change.