Getting Old. Sports. And Stuff.

Ramble on: Just talking about stuff. Response friends’ post on Facebook, slightly edited.

GETTING old. Failure and success, especially while on (self-imposed) retirement or relative inactivity due to "natural reasons," are seen as Life-done Status, per se. Me, I try not to feel that I failed or I succeeded. Too much thinking. I'd rather ponder the next episode of the TV series that I am hooked with or today's NBA games. I had a life and my 5 grownup children who live a fine life with their respective families/relationships. That's it. 🗽🏃‍♀️🏃

       SPORTS. Although I have a few favorite players, I don't have a favorite team or club. I simply enjoy a game as entertainment, hoping there'll be less politics and drama, off the court (that today's media love to stir). 🦿🤖🦾

 

       AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Studying, working, living in the US (with Americans) as a relative foreigner, I don't really feel so much about the past other than poring over history to understand the present and probably formulate a vague concept of the future. All for discussions sake or per whatever I am currently writing. I am emotionally detached from the past tenses of life. 

       Yet based on research, studies etc I believe the Civil War was also ushered by other pertinent reasons beyond slavery. And so on and so forth. 🏛🗽🏛

       NIKKI HALEY and slavery. I didn't watch the videos, not interested. Yet I ponder as me coming from a country that was invaded and colonized by Spain for 300+ years and the US for 50+ years, did "slavery" happen in the islands in those many years? Of course. It'd be sheer stupidity to believe otherwise. Plus massacres/genocide etc. Worse situations and for centuries. 

       Yet am I moved by the past? No. People use the subject to heighten their political hate or societal prejudices. Not into it. I am concerned with Now. How to deal with current realities and how to help people live a better life (in case I am a politician). 

       But if ever I want to talk about slaves or those who still suffer because their ancestors were once slaves? I focus on Africa. The poorest region on earth and yet most ignored. 

       The present. More than half of the world, not necessarily blacks, were subjugated and slaved by Western powers for several lifetimes yet they are still treated badly these days by superpowers. I’d rather talk about that. Present tense. ☮️🗽☮️