Yes, life can be tough and unfair.....and the bad thing is we don't get to practice living .... we only get one chance. Sometimes I think that life is so unfair you could even get a splinter in your old buttocks if you slid down a rainbow. And, it would probably be a colored splinter. I guess that rainbow splinter would be red from the outer part of the arc. I think that red arc is called the first chakra in the Hindu and the New Age philosophy.
We all have needs and wants and desires and sometimes we're not understood as much as we would like. So....sometimes we must go through life explaining ourselves. We make errors in life and maybe are disciplined or yelled at...this happens especially when people are young and in the learning stages of life, but it can happen in later life too.
I once read a quote by John Wayne. He said "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you are stupid." When I first read this long ago, I didn't know how to interpret this....but I think he meant if you do stupid things it makes your life tougher. I relate this to someone who might make a decision to take drugs .... life probably gets tough and worsens because of what I would call a "stupid decision".
I know that when you, as a person, are tough on yourself, life will usually be so much easier. When you stand up and face it and acknowledge it....things get better. The best thing to do is to tell yourself, life may be tough, but I'm tougher. Go for everything in life with gusto! And be tough!! Life will get better.
A Bit More About Abraham Lincoln
I found a large amount of information about Lincoln and thought I would begin posting some of it in continuing posts.....about two a week until done. It's always good to know about our 16th president who used to roam our lands in and around Greenview. Author is Derald Leigh Henson. PhD.
"Abraham Lincoln was active in the Lincoln, Illinois, region from 1836 until his Presidential election in 1860. Photo 3.1, the earliest known photo of Abraham Lincoln, was taken during Lincoln's first and only term in the US Congress and just about six years before he christened Lincoln, Illinois, in 1853.
Abraham Lincoln 3.1 photo 1846-47 ........
Note: The Lincoln portrait of 3.1 belongs to the Library of Congress. The date of this photo has been somewhat controversial. The photo had been given to Frederick Hill Reserve by Robert Todd Lincoln, who said the photo was made in Washington, D.C, about 1848 Lincoln's first and only term in the US Congress and just about six years before he christened Lincoln, Illinois, in 1853.
Even before Lincoln served in Congress, he had established a successful law practice throughout central Illinois, including Postville and Mt. Pulaski in Logan County. Photo 3.1 shows a faint smile and sensitive, intelligent eyes (they were gray). This is a portrait of a man with the contentment of early professional success, but the photo also suggests humble dignity, rather than smug self-congratulation. In my view, Lincoln's photos typically show his humble dignity and conceal his life-long ambition.
Lincoln's first ambitions were to gain public office, begin a legal career, and establish family life. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives for four successive terms beginning in 1834. When Lincoln first ran for the Illinois legislature in 1832, unsuccessfully, he printed his "platform" in the Springfield Sangamo Journal, and this article expressed one of Lincoln's life-long goals: "every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. . . ." (Thomas Lincoln was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1837, and he moved to Springfield, Illinois, from New Salem and married in 1842.
Then in 1849, after serving in the Congress, he returned to private law practice and did not become directly involved in politics till 1854, when he reacted to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which opened the possibility for slavery to spread into the western territories. The historian William Lee Miller notes that Lincoln's decision to re-enter politics was bold and would pose unusually difficult challenges. Miller writes that Lincoln's primary motive was to get the Kansas-Nebraska bill repealed, even it if meant supporting someone who was not in Lincoln's political party, the Whigs, Miller raises the question of why Lincoln would make such a decision at a time when he had escaped poverty, established a young family, and had gained financial stability and social respectability through his growing law practice. Miller explains: "one reason, surely, was [Lincoln's] 'thirst for distinction,' his desire that his name be known, that he be 'truly esteemed of his fellow men,' by rendering himself 'worthy of their esteem.' Here was his chance. A related reason, surely, was that this time his longtime rival Stephen Douglas might be vulnerable".
Lincoln's tenacious ambition, coupled with his intelligence and remarkable shrewdness, is the only way to explain his rise from laborer (flatboat worker), store clerk, failed grocery store owner, and traveling surveyor to become this nation's greatest President. Undoubtedly, Lincoln would have been flattered in 1853 when he was asked if the new town 30 miles north of the state capital could be named after him.
When he christened Lincoln, Illinois, in late August of 1853, he was only a few months away from his decision to re-enter politics, and only a year away from the speeches he gave in the second half of 1854 that ultimately led to his Presidency.
Abraham Lincoln 3.2 photo 1860..............
Photo 3.2 reflects a realization of the task ahead of him in 1860 that he knew to be greater even than Washington's. The jaw is set, the penetrating eyes revealing his profound intelligence and determination to accept and meet the challenge. When the photo showing the early beard was taken, the President-elect had already begun the serious business of working with other prominent Republicans in selecting his cabinet members. He was traveling to Chicago in late November, 1860, to meet his Vice President-elect, Hannibal Hamlin, for the first time. As they met for three days, "the main item on the agenda was the selection of the cabinet".
From the early 1840s to 1860, Lincoln transformed himself from locally successful lawyer to acclaimed national political leader and courageous President-elect. The city of Lincoln, Illinois, witnessed and participated in the drama of Mr. Lincoln's amazing advancement, as summarized by the inscription on the historical marker located at the city's christening site by the railroad depot:
"Near this site Abraham Lincoln christened the town with the juice of a watermelon when the first lots were sold on August 27, 1853. President-elect Lincoln spoke here, November 21, 1860, while traveling to Chicago, and Lincoln's funeral train stopped here, May 3, 1865, before completing the trip to Springfield."
Abraham Lincoln 1857 ...............
Thanksgiving Humor....
** A lady was picking through the frozen turkey's at the grocery store but, couldn't find one large enough for her family. She asked the stock boy "Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy answered "No ma'am, they're dead."
** If a big turkey is called a gobbler, what do you call a little turkey? A goblet.
** In the week before Thanksgiving the teacher asked her class of 9 year-olds to write a paragraph entitled: "What I am most thankful for on Thanksgiving Day".
All Joey could write was: "I'm thankful that I'm not a turkey at Thanksgiving."
All Joey could write was: "I'm thankful that I'm not a turkey at Thanksgiving."
** How do you send a turkey through the mail? "Bird Class Mail".
** Why did the turkey cross the road? "Because it was the chicken's day off."
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