Projection

 

Got to thinking again. I say again because

my thoughts have gotten me into trouble

before

Anyway, what the hell...had I been born

a hundred years before I was born, I

wouldn’t have to concern myself with the

likes of Donald J. Trump, Kevin McCarthy

and Mitch McConnell.

I wouldn’t have to worry about the Corona

Virus, the mass gun murders, rogue cops

and global warming.

Yes, there were bad guys, guns and dan-

gerous things happening a hundred years

before my birth. One just didn’t hear as

much about such things as often back then.

There was no Internet, Twitter, TV and

myriad other broadcasts flooding the

airwaves and inundating the brain.

One could float his dingy or canoe on

the lake of tranquility and drift peacefully

away into his days of old age.

I try to focus on the positive these days,

but the body is weak and fragile and the

mind is thusly geared the same way.

I could have not been born at all in which

case nothing ventured, nothing gained. Or

my life may have arrived a hundred years

too late, when things could have progressed

to be a hell of a lot worse.

Come to think of it, I’m damn near 75, and

a hundred years either way is not really that

great. Now a thousand years, with that big

a spread I could really speculate and project

a hell of a lot more.

Go big or go home. Throughout history,

folks have said that a lot even though

very few ever do.

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Chris Hanch 7-11-2021