anotherlook

There is one thing I like in life and that is humor. The ability to laugh is truly a gift but to be able to laugh at ones self is even better. For this reason, as much as I try to dislike President Bush, when I see him on the news and he can make fun of himself about his speech issues, the shoe throwing incident, his knowledge that some of the people in America do not appreciate “all he has done” while in office, I realize that he can not be all bad.
He was just a man given the great responsibility to lead a country he loved. He made some wrong choices but in the end and like he said, he did what he thought was best at the time. Can you really fault him for that?
In the eight years he was in office, I have questioned many of the decisions he has made and blamed him for the state of our economy however, truth be told, we are all responsible for the way things are.
As I drive around the area I live in and I see these extremely large houses that are being built, I have to wonder how much energy these houses take to cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
I look at the size of the cars people drive and know that basically, people are not concerned with the energy crisis that is happening all around them, all they are interested in, is driving the nice SUV or Hummer around town and having everything material, in life, that they want regardless of how it is affecting the environment or the availability of fuel in the future.
Bush may have done some wrong to the economy but if we, as American citizens, do not do our part in working towards an end to the selfish overindulgence that has created the crisis that we are now in the middle of, we ultimately have no one to blame but ourselves.
In the final analysis, while I am glad to see Bush leaving office, I have revisited my opinion of him and based on his ability to laugh at himself and in that laughter, see himself through the eyes of others, I find him a little more appealing as a person, just doing his job to the best of his ability. Nothing is ever 100 percent nor is anybody.
A plan is only viewed as a “good plan” if it turns out that it works effectively, however no plan at all leaves everything to chance and sometimes it’s not a chance that I would be willing to take.
If we could all see into the future, we would better be able to plan and to see if a proposed plan of action would work - since none of us has that ability, when something looks good on paper, we are more incline to go for it and allow for time to see how it works out. Time tells on everybody and everything and so it shall be with the next President of the United States of America.
Although Bush’s legacy is looking a little shaky right now, I’m sure that history will portray him in a different light, but as long as I live, I will always remember his humor and his ability to laugh at himself which for me tells a lot about the inside person.
And that’s the way I see it!!

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