David Tanguay

Life is about Creating Ourselves



Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011

by David Tanguay

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” Anne Sullivan

The chains that bind us and keep us slaves of an existence we try to free ourselves from, we avoid change for we fear what change may bring into our lives.

Based on these principals is the conservative movement in our country. We are afraid to live our lives differently than we ever did before.

When constructive and moral change is what we, as human beings must bring about as a humane people inhabiting our world, we do see the comfort in sentimental conservatism however we must believe in a moral liberalism.

Our future is one of change we must adapt to our new way of life for we are leaving behind a barbarous past and being awaken to a new lifestyle of love and compassion.

A new day is dawning we must heed to its calling, yesterday is gone tomorrow is here and now. Our Lord has provided us with this new day to flourish in and to dwell in its glory. Our ancestors left our planet with many scars we must heal.

Our planet earth needs our attention before we seek out to conquer other planets we must nurse our own ailing planet earth “our home” back to health. Our earth is our mother we must take care of her before it’s too late.

We must also face our neighbor in a new light. No matter what nation we are citizens of we are all human and all share human qualities. Our founding fathers made it quite clear when they created our constitution that all men by their creator are equal under the eyes of God. This does not only apply to citizens of our own country but to all people of the world.

                 

To find it in our heart to love our neighbor despite all of their faults, this should be our goal. To find ourselves in our neighbor is to find a mutual understanding within us. It is to create ourselves to a more refined species of life.

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition” Alexander Smith

 
Dave Tanguay was born on November 8,1948 in Westbrook, Maine. The 10th. child of a family of eleven children. Served in Vietnam in the 60s, he became active with the youth movement of that day on completion of military duty. Now retired and living in Florida. (still believes in the young)

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