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Jan12

We The People

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When people ask me whom are you going to vote for in any election I always say I vote for those who are for the MAN. When I say that I mean the populous, the people who barely can survive to those who have enough to support their family but would crumble in the face of a medical or natural disaster. People who have calluses on their hands because they work beyond the regular workday and don’t have business deals over long lunches or at the golf courses. These people are men and women are of any race, spiritual and/or cultural beliefs. These are the people that are the blood, muscles and bones of America the ones who built it. The ones who said British Tyranny was not for us, we want to believe and do what we want, that is the land of opportunity that is the land of freedom.

Now I don’t believe this is the land of opportunity or freedom, our press is so skewed or scared that hardly anyone believes it is objective and just the facts. Recently, I have read they are even thinking of censoring the internet for either political http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/house-republicans-block-net-neutrality_n_824917.html or business http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110118/12431012712/companies-who-support-censoring-internet.shtml reasons. If these are true, then we really have lost one of the most fundamental rights as citizens, our freedom of speech. No one can deny that people naturally bend information in their favor so that they can sell a point or product. Heck, you look at all those prescription drug ads, they have to say the side effects but as they are saying it they show a picture of very content people having a good time. However, it was the people over the years demanding that advertisers be true to their claims because they were being burned all too often by the true product. Again and again that is was it takes to start change is more than one person to band together and say this is unfair, this is unjust change the law, change your ways or we will not stop advocating for the good, the protection of the people.

We saw the benefits of this in Egypt but it is really happening in Wisconsin right now. The public unions are fighting for the benefits they have gained over the years. Being a school teacher and family member to those who live and breathe in the private sector I have seen both sides of the story. I have seen my brother lose his business because times are tough and smaller businesses had to combine in order to survive. I have seen jobs move over seas because businesses want to skirt unions and their seemly high demands, the same ones that the public unions have now. The only and I mean the only reason that public unions have remained strong is because they are the jobs that you can’t outsource and by breaking these public unions the government is saying we value business more than the people.

In essence the people, business and the government all suffered a huge fatality, it has become a highly flawed system. I am not going to sit here and vent my frustrations without offering a solution. I say the people; the businesses and the government get back to the table and negotiate. Negotiate ways to give people back their jobs, health care, and pensions by businesses not being allowed to outsource any more. Believe me if you find a way that a family shouldn’t have to starve or lose their modest house in order to live and breathe for their entire lives, I think you will find the people to be more flexible. Really all the people want is to feel as secure as possible and would be willing to work with you to get achieve that pursuit of happiness. I also think that any business should not be able to mark up any item beyond 100% manufacturing, transportation, and personal costs combined. If such profits exist beyond that they should give it to the people via charity. In addition the government should really focus enforcing those laws that focus on protecting the people rather than someone who has the ability to sue because her coffee is too hot and she didn’t receive proper warning. As for the people start taking responsibility for the common sense that has been taught to them over several years. I don’t know about you but when I order anything hot I will automatically be extra careful with it because my Home Ec teacher taught me to handle hot objects in the kitchen carefully, the fireman always wants people to have a smoke detector in the house because hot things burn, the police man arrests people for even threatening to hurt someone with hot things, heck even Smokey the Bear says something like only you can prevent…. Finally, when accidents do happen, we are people after al, the EMT comes to help you but that doesn’t mean you get to sue someone because you forgot to be careful. Really people, don’t go for the gold by never really panning for it, you have to work for it just like everyone else.

This week we celebrated Presidents Day and thinking about all the great presidents that people continually celebrate, each time those presidents Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, etc. all truly represented the people and worked to bring them together and make everyone equal in one form or another. They all brought this country out of great distress. A state we are living in regardless of whether or not we are officially out of a recession. We now live in an age where you must have proof before you can do anything. To me the proof that we have lost a government for the people by the people is that the people have now become serfs under the king autocracy rather than the, We the People, a democracy, who gathered together for the freedom, equality and rights of all.

-Jennie Nawrocki

Jan12

Lessons

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When a student does something that a teacher and/or administrator is required to follow through with consequences, during the process part of the conversation usually entails some version of this question, What did you learn? Often putting all the responsibility on the student rather than all parties involved. It is only when the problem is repeated or ballooned within either the school or real world environment when the whole scenario is looked at often resulting in the administrations fault because they didn’t put together the supports needed to stop the problem in the first place. Take for example the economic decline, at first it was the persons fault for not paying their bills or participating with insider trading, then people may look at what they did wrong and possibly stop however for various reasons the actions continue if not expand. Then it starts to be the companies fault not providing internal policies that would catch the behavior before it caused tremendous harm. However it is now the governments fault for not creating or enforcing laws especially when they affect the populus as a whole. Resulting to the fact that it is again the people’s fault because they voted in corrupt politicians. By now it is so widespread, so interweaved causing world wide panic of depression that nothing is clear as to whom is responsible. Now we are all trying to clean up a big mess, which many people theorize as to how to solve. Since everyone else has an opinion or has given their solution why not be in the masses and throw out mine.

I long ago wrote an essay on motivation (now lost in the tech abyss of deletions), in short that essay says motivation all boils down to that american constitutional right of the pursuit of happiness. It is that individuals happiness that determines whether gaining money is defined by greed or simply just survival. Think about it I can have the same mattress for years while another person feels if they don’t change it or have the money to change it once a year passes then they feel distraught, or otherwise unhappy.

In the schools a student may misbehave to gain others love and respect the only thing he always wanted from his peers or a girl wanting to escape the world of paper pencil lecturing because she is a person who would do better learning skills as an apprentice in a workshop for she is primarily happy when she can create, fix, build all skills that prepare her for blue collar jobs which hardly exist.

When we become adults our motivations for happiness become more complex because we have more responsibilities derived from our numerous connections. Some would call this the politics of Joe the plumber. He still has that primal instinct to fight or flight the everyday needs of survival, but yet again those may be different from Sally the regular office worker. Whether this ability to pursue happiness through basic survival needs is morally just has become the bigger debate.

Truly it is these internal motivational factors that determine all the lessons you will learn. Basically if you are not motivated internally external factors become irrelevant. A person will always further themselves if they think their survival or glimpse at happiness is paramount. A case in point a gang member would rather rot in prison than rat their own out because their fate would be worse if they broke the gangs/personal code of honor. That is why in any scenario a manipulation of the environment may aide but to inspire within always wins out.

-Jennie Nawrocki

Jan12

Invention

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I have spent so long writing and speaking for others, while living through their quotes, my originality has waned. It took a long time for me to be real and not live through colloquialisms. I have my own stories to tell, they are not meant to change your life, judge your actions or directives in your daily world. I tell them because they are the voice of my thoughts with a mixture of imagination, hopes, and reality. The full circle of it is that it is the only way I communicate safely, or is it. I found out that even when the internet is published regardless of the amount of followers, everyone has an opinion. The bell curve of thought begins and it is the outliers that are brazen and remembered, bad or good. Why can’t the curve close into a circle it does, only to connect with another, flowing infinitely eventually leveling at any point. To be shy and not write or write to others opinions is without internal emotional freedom. However to write without intention of compassion leaves no one satisfied. Conversation written or verbal is meant for connection, your level is dependent on your own reality of compassionate communication from within your self.

I don’t want to live in a world where I have to be told how to think, feel and believe, no one does. Manipulators who fish and/or change the situation for their individual benefit will tell you it is for the best, because they care, while the whole time only using you until they get what the need and dropping you the second you aren’t needed. They are the corporations that run this world, they are depleting our natural resources because they think they will always find a way to get what they need, when the only thing you can take to the grave with you is your conscience. To me conscious is being aware how you affect others and dealing with your own personal hang ups. Everybody brings their issues to the conversation it is how well you know yours and what you do to counteract it, if negative, that makes you an individual.

At times I feel what ever I say someone has said before but just my cover twist of their tune. True lasting invention is filling a unknown needed void. Invariably coming from the phrase “wouldn’t it be nice”. Although it is the person that puts action into that statement is the inventor rather that the idea maker and rightly so. I think I have to write just to get the other thoughts out of mine. I don’t think that is selfish, I think of it as stepping out of the ditch.

-Jennie Nawrocki

Jan12

Hugs

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I have been thinking a lot lately about hugs, all types of hugs. I have always wondered why the best hug is a bear hug when no one would really want to hug a bear for fear they would be killed; the same is a boa constrictor hug you till all your breaths dissipate. I remember when I was a little girl I couldn’t wait for my brothers to come home from wherever they were, they would give me the hugest hugs. Being so small I would normally jump towards them and they would pick me up and wrap me in their arms. My feet never touched the ground I literally felt as though all my troubles were swept away in that one hug, I never felt so loved and protected.

I certainly have had many hugs since, hugs of all sorts but none like those. It is amazing what a hug can do; I think being held with love is more powerful than anything else someone can give you. It gives you strength, courage, support and a general feeling of being wanted, being loved. I think that is why the stereotype of woman prefer to cuddle rather than have sex, an orgasm lasts a short time but a hug lasts so much longer and it can be done in public too. I also think that is why the rumor is that guys tend to not cuddle with women unless they really love them. For me, a person never the norm, a simple hug gives me more self-confidence in any situation than even that famous liquid courage otherwise known as alcohol.

I am not much of a drinker, most people will tell you this. That is not to say I haven’t had my fair share of drinking till completely wasted evenings, I don’t know many who haven’t but over the years my drinking has become more ritualistic. I discovered long ago that drinking was a truth serum for me as well as a way to separate my body from my mind. It is like Gumby is stuck with George Washington’s brain. For that reason I couldn’t conceive of drinking at work, nope the only people I drink with are people I trust. What my drinking looks like these days is one drink watered down over the course of the evening as a way of being socially polite. If I have two drinks, I must trust the people around me but normally stop there. If I have shots or get totally drunk (which hasn’t happened in an extremely long time) then I know that the people with me will not let cars run me over as I cross against the light, true story. If I don’t drink at all I am just being me nothing more, nothing less. It took many times for me to get to this point, I had have many men and “friends” take advantage of me during these evenings of drinking during my life. The ones that didn’t I have more respect for even to this day than some of the people I encounter on a daily basis.

You may think I have digressed from the original topic, I didn’t, I wanted to give you some background as to why a hug could give a girl more courage than anything thing else, including alcohol. When you give someone a hug you are telling that person I like you enough that I will put myself in a vulnerable stance so that you can put your arms around me. For this reason hugs are a demonstration of emotion towards others. You don’t give hugs to just anyone, you give hugs to those you want to show trust and love and want to see the same in return. That doesn’t imply that some hugs are fake, some are and you know when they are, you might as well feel like you are holding a refrigerator, because that is what this type of hug is frigid. The warmth of the hug determines the comfort of the situation and the type of relationship it is, this shouldn’t be news to anyone.

When you feel a real pleasing hug one in which your bodies feel they melded together and form one whether it is friendly, familial, or sensual. It can be and is for me the most empowering thing I have ever encountered. Also helps if the person smells good too even without an added fragrance. It allows to you to feel comfortable enough to give you a sense of security with that person or the people in the situation. You feel protected from judgment and criticism, giving your self-confidence 5 energy boosts with one simple hug. You embody this feeling that you can do anything you always wanted and you didn’t even have to go to Vegas to feel that way. You just feel wanted, you feel loved, which is all anyone wants.

It is interesting I have had many hugs over time and some of the more genuine hugs came from people I didn’t long for or expect. They came from people who really cared even if it wasn’t as obvious. I feel bad that at the time I didn’t give them the hug back they deserved.

I wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this but when I write I express my emotions and when I hug I give those same emotions and so much more. I wanted to give you my faithful readers that give me a strong flawless foundation of support as I write in order for you to read, this is my way of giving you a hug. In that, I give you my truth, my protection, my love, I hope you do the same.