What I Learned In A Sandbox of Angels: Outgrew the Hometown Diner or Taken from It?

You were five, your grandparents and parents sat at the Hometown Diner with you on Sunday afternoon asking you what you would like for breakfast, chocolate milk or not, how was school this week they ask and general family conversations are had at this time. Ranging from gossip, to how's so and so, when are those two tying the knot, what do you want to be when you grow up you get asked over eggs and toast. Don't kid yourself each individual family is doing the same thing at this diner, it's the community gathering over food and vintage family time. As American as apple pie.

Time elapses. You grow up at this diner from booster seat on, toddler to adolescent and a young adult you eventually become. A comfort zone at this point it becomes inevitably. And that's a good thing. You took your bikes there with your friends for sodas and baskets of fries talking about sports and crushes you have. Then you become an adolescent and are taking your crush there in your letter jacket from the sport your playing or the band team your apart of. Your elders acknowledge your presence, well aware you are the future of there community. Then at some point things in our generation split in more directions then bird shots coming from a shotgun.

Social media was born in our generation and took off at a rate never before seen. Public propaganda sprouted out of no where like dandelions on an untreated yard. That my friends is truth. "My Space" gave way to Facebook and lines in the sand were drawn over time.

Family Diner conversations slowly became about other things but not your family or community as much. 9/11 happened. The economy started to collapse and truly has yet to rebound. Peoples political stances, failures and opinions were aired out in the open like an American flag flying in the yard on 4th of July. In our generation a picture really does tell a 1,000 words, multiply that by the 100s and thousands of pictures we have posted thru social media apps and think about the shift in culture with that type of information at people's fingertips. That's not even considering the ones put in front of us thru these social apps.  We naturally as humans are wired to judge. Social media just streamlined our ability to do so in a production line manner. Hello Yelp, where novices are experts blasting people's life investments often without merit. How about your news feed? How far can you scroll before you come across something controversial? Not far.

Propaganda and an influx of social medias tools became our country's preferred "community". Did you outgrow your hometown diner or was that way of life and community hijacked from you? Could make the case we are wired to judge and pushed to conform more then ever before in America's proud history.

Believe a saying says the future is best told by the past or something along those lines. Your community needs that family diner, YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, church, or shelter. What it doesn't need is the current state of society. Power of the human spirit has been paralyzed compared to the world our grandparents grew up in....and they know it.

Go ask em'. Listen. 

Those places are the truest "pictures" of life's potential.  Those atmospheres show the power of people to people. Our society is not that. It is the power of social media controlling people or heavily influencing them. Maybe not all people(I know i have at times) but rather society as a whole really has fallen victim to this lifestyle or train of thought and behavior as a result.

This is my pursuit of a happy ending that you or me may never see. But our children will. We saw the world our grandparents grew up in as young kids. It was different in a better way. I salute them for living in a world like that. Evil still existed and the devil was alive and well but he didn't have the outlets that he does now. Time to seal those up. Now is better then never.

It starts with you when you roll out of bed. When you get to work, how you talk to and treat those you work with plays a role. It starts with the street you live on. Starts with your city. Starts with what you WANT for your family. Starts with your attitude. They are your beliefs, develop them. Believe in your ability to respond when things go wrong.  Your desire to be a better person is on you and in your community.

There is a happy ending in life it looks a lot like the family diner you grew up in. The atmosphere created there wasn't a place, it was a lifestyle. We the people...actually...think a famous person said that when trying to create change for the better. I'll end it with that complete the sentence as you please or more importantly with what you truly believe life should be. We the people.....

God Bless & Stay Cool :)
"Your 5 yr old coming full circle"
Joe w/an angels presence directing me (LukeStrong)

P.S.- Sometimes principles are the hand on your brain directing you in the right direction. Luke is the hand on my brain. Go find your source of inspiration and make life better, it's in you. Always be believing.