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Hello Fellow Forumites,
I notice that you too are now using that term le-Bob! :-)
Nice point David - when you said:
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"All I can do is do better myself. I am the only one I can change."
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Here's another of similar context by Chuck Norris:
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"I will give so much to the improvement of myself,
that I will have no time to criticize others." - Chuck Norris.
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With respect to "One Tin Soldier"...
Linda, you did well on your analysis of the part you presented. All true.
Here is the section of lyrics that have meaning for me.
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So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.
Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."
(Snipped Chorus out)
Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.
Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.
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Boy! Does that hit you fair between the eyes? Especially at this time of the year!
Incidentally, I believe in giving credit where it is due. Those marvelous words come from the minds of Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.
When I first saw that movie the thing that impressed me was how Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) stood up for the oppressed. He was protecting a group on native American Indians who were regularly abused by a bunch of evil creeps.
In one vivid scene he is confronted by the idiot son of the town's main bully - a guy called Posner. With Posner, for protection from Billy Jack, was a giant of a man who was Posner's body guard.
Billy looks up at this huge guy and asks: "How tall are you?"
The guy answers: "Six feet ten."
To which Billy says: "Well, here's what I'm gonna do... I'm gonna take this foot and I'm gonna put it right about here." He points to a section of the giant's chin.
The giant scoffs at the suggestion.
Billy then says: "And the best thing is... there ain't a damn thing you can do about it."
Then, in a flash... WHAM! and the giant is flattened. And dopey young Posner's eyes are poppin' right out of his head as he realizes the power of Billy Jack.
WOW! I was just an impressionable kid of 14 at the time and had just commenced studying karate myself. I wanted to be Billy Jack! That was the moment that I knew I wanted to be able to stand up to bullies like Billy was able to coz, up until that point, I had been bullied all my life by bigger, stronger, meaner and tougher kids.
(Er, by the way, I'm still practicing that kick. One day I might get it right.)
On an even more personal note, some of you may have noticed many of my posts were somewhat more maniacal than normal this week. There is a reason for that.
I have been dealing with grief all week. My karate master and mentor for the last 20 years, Master William Vaughan, died. He was 74. This was how I was coping with such a great personal loss. I have had many introspective moments alone, often at my computer. Lots of things have been running through my mind - mostly all at once.
Linda, said somewhere else in a thread that I was usually being "silly" when I post short comments. That is true - especially if le-Bob gives me an entry point, which he often does. But this week I have been particularly nutty and that is why.
My little heart to heart with y'all...
Gary Simpson.
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