I hear their cries
Just say if it's too late for me
I'm honestly not even sure where to begin with this, because I honestly cannot believe this is where we are in 2025. But since part of the deeper meaning of this song is about dealing with your feelings and not just moving forward all the time I guess now is as good a time as any to start processing my feelings about all of this.
Growing up I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period, I thought I was much more of a flower child from the 60's then the "greed is good" excess of the 80's. Don't get me wrong I loved being an 80's kid but I felt this connection to a different time. I tell you this to help explain that socially I have always been very open minded, much to the disappoint of my religious homophobic mother. So watching as we slowly moved forward as a society was both painstaking and exciting all at once, but now it is just heartbreaking to watch so much of the progress being washed away so quickly.
Unlike the whiny ass bitches who did nothing but cry foul that their false idol was robbed of his win last time I am not crying foul. I know this piece of shit human being won and I am not hear to argue that, but I am saddened by the shear number of people who thought only of themselves. The ones that will either celebrate all the horrible things this man has promised to unleash or just have the attitude "he's not talking about me". Hate to tell you but he is talking about you and while I hate wishing anything bad on another person I hope you all get the full experience, you know the one you voted for. I comfort myself with the thought that I am not wishing if it's something they asked for, not my fault they did not read the fine print on that. You know the fine print that says unless you are white, male, christianish, and wealthy then you have value all others need not apply.
The next how ever many years it takes to come back from this will be very difficult and I know that for me to personally survive them I have to become every thing I do not want to become. But I will have to learn how not to cry and hope that when this is done it will not be too late for me.
Larry’s Perspective:
I'm not going to lie - the next few days will become a little political because today is Inauguration Day in the United States for the 47th President.
Shannon chose today's song so I'm curious to read her thoughts.
I'm not trying to be sexist and I'll lean into my previous statements that dads are just different from moms. So when I say this, I hope it isn't taken the wrong way.
I think once females understand this song, they can interpret it on a deeper emotional level than males. But I'm not so sure they have lived life like the typical male of my generation.
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
'Doctor My Eyes' was the statement of a man who had stoically endured life's hardships, but having done so, now worried that he had been rendered unable to feel anything.
For males my age, that statement is 100% true. Prior to 2016, I felt like the U.S. was on a path to course correct that because, duh, read all my previous emotional posts, I think males should be more open. I think it's healthy and will move the world to a better place.
But the 2016 election happened. And the 2024 election happened. And idiots like "Your Body My Choice" and countless other morons have been emboldened.
In 2016 - I was in a state of shock. It was the exact opposite of this song lyric:
Was I unwise to leave them open closed for so long?
At Lbrands I had seen and sensed this simmering - the increasing Ethiopian, Eritrean, Nepalese populations against the backdrop of poor, depressed, gullible, uneducated redneck America. Some of the changes Lbrands implemented to accommodate this new reality I was 100% supportive of; some I was 100% against. But it wasn't my company. And they weren't the only company making these changes. So multiply these changes and it becomes pretty easy to understand why the 45th President was elected. "They" aren't welcome here and "they" don't deserve to be treated like human beings.
In 2024 my team lost - I can accept that. Unlike anyone pounding their chest that there was cheating - that is as long as they lost. This time it's not a feeling of shock, it's a feeling of "Reap the whirlwind, dumbasses" or as I am coining the term right now: "MINOWS"; MAGA IN NAME ONLY WHAT SUCKERS instead of RINO's. I haven't had a lot of time to research what transpired in 2024 voting but I do know that the younger population voted Republican along with Latinos and Black males - significantly more so than voting Democratic in 2020. I wonder who will be most impacted by this election?
What's also curious - and gives me hope, as I hope it does you who feel the same way as I do - is the fact that during this election, there were noticeably more Harris/Walz signs in Saint Francis than you would expect. This is deep, red territory. But there are those farmers who were burned during 45's tenure along with with just the overall bullshit that I believe they saw through.
So, I am going to sit back and eat popcorn and watch this train wreck unfold. There's already an undercurrent in the U.S. of "fuck - maybe I shouldn't have voted this guy back in" but like I said - reap the whirlwind, MINOWS.
So, per Neil, I will quietly resist...
Doctor My Eyes
Jackson Browne
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears, without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hidin'
You must help me if you can
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise
To leave them open for so long?
'Cause I have wandered through this world
And as each moment has unfurled
I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams
People go just where they will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it's later than it seems
Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it's too late for me
Doctor, my eyes
But cannot see the sky
Is this the prize
For having learned how not to cry?
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