I wrote this post about a year and a half ago on Facebook right after hurricane Gustav in Houston and figured I'd bring it into this blog and only thought about it after the historical event in Haiti. It kind of outlines my mind state at the moment.
"When things go wrong and they sometimes will! Its easy for people to get boggled down with the issues of tomorrow, for the scary fact that it will soon be today. In our short time as young professionals in this country we have witnessed arguably more historic events in 7 years than anyone could have ever imagined. We witnessed the destruction of the twin towers in NY, the reinvention of the Vietnam War, but in Iraq, A black man and a woman as the front runners for the Democratic nomination for President. We have seen what could potentially be the start of the next Great Depression, a natural disaster that just seems unnatural and what the future holds, no one truly knows. What can we expect in our near future, possibly an Oil crisis, not like the kind in the 70s, but a day when we just don't have enough. Can you imagine a day whenthere just isn't enough oil, people lined up around street corners attempting to fill up their tanks, nearly wiping out the nations gas supply in a matter of days, food trucks unable to bring supplies to warehouses, and people not able to reach stores to obtain their basic needs. Oh yeah, and if you think that is far fetched, than all you have to do is take a look at Houston days before the Hurricane, because this was our experience.
But I'm not writing this to scare people. I'm writing this because I hope that this is a realization with all that is crazy in the world, there are certainly more things important. Like living life, and enjoying the important people that surround you. If we, as a nation lived our lives to support others, we wouldn't have to worry about the biggest foreclosure crisis in our lifetime. People are too focused with where their lives are today and not where it fits into the bigger picture. The expectation that what happens down in a small town outside of Atlanta, doesn't affect me here in Boston. When the reality is, that people's inability to pay for their mortgages yesterday, may affect your job, or loan tomorrow. This is the importance of the urgency of now. It takes a crisis in this country to wake people up, and a lack of a sense of urgency is an epidemic spreading through the American culture.
The question you have to ask yourself is, where do you fit in, how do you impact others? If you had to write your own eulogy, what would it say? What you did do, or what your potential was? People who know me, know how I feel about the power of a new day. The only thing unnerving about tomorrow is that it can't come soon enough, as we all get another opportunity to be the change makers I know we can be. As i end this note, I challenge all of you to make a faith statement about the kind of world you want to live in.
This is your boy Juan Pablo writing from Mexico City, supporting my mexican hombres in increasing their overall tequila revenue.
McCain '08, just kidding!"
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