The rain is pouring down, and I am grateful that it is no more snow. Who would have thought that 35F would feel balmy? Might actually get out down my long drive this week, just to explore traffic and what we call life these days.
Just watched the final season episode of Yellowstone, a series so well done, so over the top, so much about tribalism, and hanging on to what we think we got, no matter what it takes, and no matter how many laws we have to break. It's quite brilliantly done, the full blown saga of love, conquest, hate, fear, blood and gore, and at some times for some, redemption. I'm gonna miss it!
And that is where I feel my life is right at this moment. What do I do now? Without Yellowstone?
Ah, life, such a strange confluence of interactions, paths taken, paths not taken, experiences only known to each of us intrinsically, but in the end of it all, we get old. Frankly, never thought I would get old, but here I am.
I think I have lived in an era, and in a place, that afforded me choices and opportunities that the current generation just doesn't have. Not that anything came especially easy, but there were many options, many paths to take. People were not afraid of their shadows, were free to move around, make mistakes, and often, even have the opportunity to learn from them.
I don't recognize this world today, where freedom is being taken away, at first slowly, over the past few decades, and now speeding up like a runaway train. I could travel wherever I wanted, yes, with a passport for certain foreign destinations, but I was never denied entrance to any venue because I couldn't prove that I had been jabbed with an experimental vaccine that doesn't even work for what we were told it was intended.
When I was young, we could travel freely throughout the US and also Canada and Mexico, without papers. "Show your papers" is now the mantra, not just here in the USA, but globally.
I don't know what to do. Why are so many blind to what is happening to all of us?
Maybe I am just feeling sad because I have to wait months for the next season of Yellowstone?