Mainstream Americans with apt justification, are in dreaded anticipation of the ensuing four years of Donald J. Trump’s presidential rule. Such concern is empirically justifiable in light of his record of miscreant actions and bizarre statements, disturbingly antithetical to the avowed American ethos of liberty, human rights, and societal rectitude. The coming four years of misrule, aggravated by his excruciating selection of an entire wax museum of inappropriate Cabinet Members is empirically productive of consummate angst, insecurity, and constant perturbation. It is the beneficial intention of this writing to suggest a salubrious technique (a temporal oasis) to keep hope alive and maintain one’s acceptable composure for the forthcoming execrable 48 months of Trumpist disorder.
Over the four to five years of history of this blog space, we have stressed the indispensably important role of life-enhancing self-examination, development, and maintenance of a consistent and referable self-image, and, as an addition, the nurturance of an elective (i,e,, unrelated to family or work) activity to buttress our personalized perception of life. In our perception, the benefits of a personalized feeling of self-fulfillment, rather than a public demonstration of the accumulation of assets, leads, ultimately to the self-recognition of a fulfilled life. It is notably in the mind,, that we live and perceive the World. The contemplative individual has the aptitude for internal resolve and optimistic patience.
The choice exists regarding the contrary options of, sitting in our easy chair accompanied by the uncomfortable emotional sense of anxiety and impending doom or, by emotional contrast, internally voyaging to the salubrious and pleasant conception of deferral of the concern to our developed interest in books, the arts, science, and personally developed crafts, as a limited sample of a temporal oasis engendered by pleasant distraction. Such universally available techniques of temporal deferment of concern are more salubrious and useful than uncomfortable, entirely useless rumination and self-pity.
With the assistance of such temporally needed, pleasant diversions from the disappointing political scene, coupled with persistent maintenance of optimism and support of the fundamental undertakings of our Democratic Republic and sincere optimism for the not-too-distant future, the traditional American citizen can internally travel to his temporally needed oasis, viz., his elected voyage to his inner space, whenever personally required,.
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