Another campaign. Another time to leak dirty little secrets.
Past affairs, past lies, past deals, past birth certificates &
resumes. But the relevant word, my friend, is "past." All usually in the
person's past. Long ago, far away, and probably totally disconnected
from the current campaign. Besides, if we were to score the two
nominees, their secrets will tend to cancel each other out. So lets
start from here and now, more than then and there.
Next, there's
you and me. Running for no public office, but also hoping to keep
private a few of our own dirty-little-secrets. Hey, secrets come with
the territory. Three of the most universal:
* That PERSON in your
life who seemed to come out of nowhere, drifted away to somewhere, but
for those few intervening weeks or years made an immortal difference. To
your feelings, your beliefs, your visions, or maybe most lasting of all
your heart. Funny how we often forget. Even funnier, how often he or
she probably still remembers!
* That IDEA in your life which
broke into your consciousness one unpredicted day with a swift sure
insistence. Birthed perhaps in a classroom, a book, a pulpit, a march.
No, you didn't see it coming, for it was so totally foreign to your
values. Yet, those values have never quite been the same since!
*
That lucky BREAK in you life which remarkably and freely landed there
in front of you on a route you thought you had mapped out for yourself.
Fate? Karma? Destiny? God? The name makes little difference; the impact
does. In our most brutally honest moments, we can ask ourself: why in
all the world did that extraordinary turn of events turn up in my life!
And
so, my fellow secret-keepers, while the political secrets start to fly
thick and furious....maybe a little down-time to remember some of our
own. And how they got us here.....
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