Something's got to give

TIME, THE OLD BUGABOO

When something is got to give, then something will give.  It is just a matter of time.  Yes, that old bugaboo with mankind.  We are all here but for a short time.  When time runs short, something has got to give.

So, that's the idea with this post.  The Shortness of Time.  Here we all are, busy in our everyday lives, and suddenly after a number of years, you may be confronted with that bugaboo.  You will have to do something about it.  Something will have to give.  And then it does...

Here I am, following the Big Scene, with this blog.  It is about the election now, and how I don't like certain candidates, and prefer another.  It is that way with us all.  Not everyone will agree,  but time is running short.  Something has got to give.

While I am doing this, things are happening in my own life.  I'm getting older all the time, like everybody else.  Nobody gets any younger.  I bought some land out west, but I don't have the time to go out there, don't you see.  It takes too long to accomplish things, because I am not a young whippersnapper any more.  Things keep going wrong, like with my old van.  It won't start, and I got to figure out what that is.  There's no money to put into it to keep it running.  It had better be something simple, and if it isn't... Something has got to give.  The van goes and so does the land.  Poof!  The last two years down the drain.


TRIAGE

Triage is a time management technique.  When you cannot save everybody in a disaster situation, you have to save as many lives as you can.  There's no time to save everybody.

The technique has applications elsewhere, but gets another name.  Just say managing one's time better.  Prioritizing based upon limited resources.  Time is a limited resource.  You might hear something like this-- "I don't have the time".  When you don't have the time, something gets lost in the bargain.  It may be your own life.  Just saying.


EXHORTATIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH

But that may be all there's time for.  If the exhortations don't do it, something's got to give.  It may be YOU.

You may need somebody to help you, but they've got their own troubles.  No time for yours. Exhortations take up little time.


THOSE WHO CAN HELP ARE BUSY WITH THEIR PIETY

It is easier to holier-than-thou when things are going your way most of the time.  People will recoil at that, most likely.  It's just the truth, but you can't say that in this age and time.

Look at it this way.  People are the most civilized when things are going well.  When things start falling apart, the more animalistic survival mode goes into effect.  Civilized behavior is a luxury one has when things are going well.  When things don't, something's got to give.  ISIS, anyone?


THOSE WHO MAKE BAD DECISIONS NEED HELP, NOT EXHORTATIONS

But they are not likely to get it because the pious are too busy with their piety.  All this may sound socialist.  And that is how they get you with their materialism.  But when the stuff hits the recirculation device, there won't be any more time.  It will be every man for himself.  He will forget his piety, and will work overtime to save his own skin.  Just like everybody else.  The socialist is busy with his piety.  There's no atheists in foxholes.

I've been there.  Not pointing fingers.  It just the ways things are.  Something has got to give.  If it is a matter of me vs. you, I'm taking me first, because I am more important to me than you are.  That's the way it is.  Some things will never change.  [ Bruce Hornsby and the Range starts to play in my head]


GETTING CLOSER TO HOME


Like the Grand Funk song.  It was said to be popular with the men coming back from Vietnam.  Things have a way of getting distilled down to the essence when the bombs are falling, and the bullets are flying.

Let me go home and be pious again, dear Lord, while Satan grins a ghastly grin.


Believe or not, this is not a sermon.  It is just the truth.  You all know it too.  But you won't admit it.

I knock Cruz, but Cruz is a young whippersnapper who has to learn a few things.  That's assuming that he ever will.

But what about me?

I've got things I have to do.  Something has got to give, doggone it.

Part 4 concludes.  Part 3 in series previously.