The elections are now two days away, and this one has been the most dramatic that I have ever encountered. This is partly due to having more media than ever before, and more so, the bombardment of all of it on the senses all of the time.
Tonight however, I was severely impacted by an unexpected variable. The leader of a much smaller party, a man who affected an entire decade, and arguably is still feared in our nation.
His son has formed a party, but he is of course very much the driving force behind it. He spoke for about half an hour, and he had so much of interest to say, from first hand juicy gossip that bordered on shocking truth...because he was involved...to practical insights because of his experience with the truly downtrodden in the nation.
His words truly strike a cord because as my mother put it, his is the subtext between the two parties vying for our votes, and as he stated tonight, why do the citizens keep voting for rats to guard our cheese?
This election is about our country, who we are and what we will become. It is about confronting our morality, deciding what we want for ourselves today and tomorrow, and whether we can continue to accept certain conditions.
He made the question of the lesser of two evils one that must be squarely looked at, and the conclusion was not palatable. One is far more treacherous than the other, far more worrisome indeed. The history of our country particularly the last twenty years, must be recorded in full detail for generations to come. it is a dizzying history that reads better than any novel.
But I am writing about this man tonight because he got me to take stock of myself and my own life. He talked about ownership and personal wealth. he talked about the people who have all of the wealth and those who do not. Of course I know all of this already, so why did it impact me now?
It was the way in which he talked about the spiral of poverty. The fact that organisation is what is lacking at the base of it. The fact that it is so easy to see success for others and not for yourself and for those in your family. It is so easy to think that it cannot happen for you. He threw a statement out that I now am running with, that shall change how I see and view economic success from now on.
I have read many magazines, blogs and books on all types of money supporting and assisting tips. I never think of it in terms of myself in my island, getting richer by personal entrepreneurship...although I have had my own business. I never thought of myself from a place of actually becoming wealthy through an idea that I build on.
I am thinking that way now. I am thinking this way because none of the above, not that small party or the other two are really ultimately the makers of my happiness and my success, I am, and I thank him for showing me the way.