Sometimes you hear …

I t happens like this.

You are going along, minding your own business, tending to everyday tasks or talking to your friends or family, watching television or surfing on a computer, when someone says something that snatches your attention and figuratively slaps you in your face.

And you cannot shake off the impact of what you just heard.

It’s like time just stopped. And you are left asking yourself, “What just happened?”

Which is what happened to me the other day. I heard a statement … just that … a few simple words strung together that hit me hard.

Without further ado, here they are: “You should not choose a path because of what you want – you should choose a path because of what you can live without.”

Again, this is not original with me. Otherwise, it would not have been so impacted by what should be an obvious truth to anyone, yet seemingly is not in our time. These words are hard to take, when so many – and I include myself sometimes – are so invested in the “but what about my wittle fweelings?” syndrome we are incapsulated with these days, which is basically just a reflexive natural defense mechanism, that might serve us well if we see an attacking lion coming at us, but serves us poorly when confronted with another person’s contrasting viewpoint.

One requires our immediate action … the other, not as much.

It is more important to carefully weigh the benefits or downsides of our personal decisions.

Especially when voting at the polls for elections.

So, how about this? How about ask yourself, “What can I live without” as you stand in line, ready to cast your vote?

Ask yourself if you would be able to live WITHOUT the following?

#1 Overwhelming Border Crisis: In which the concept of citizenship becomes completely meaningless, as a permanent welfare class is allowed in country to take up resources, jobs, money, housing, social security, depressing education, overcrowding hospitals, and over whelming insurance, medical care, and in-your-face violations of voting rights.

#2 Inflation and the Cost of Living: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the costs burdening consumers have increased by 18 percent or more since Biden assumed the presidency. This does not take into account many other skyrocketing costs of fuel, housing, rent, insurance, vehicle costs and the like.

We have literally crippled the finances of the United States by Biden’s Covid payments and due to his administration’s incompetence and wild spending extremes, have imperiled the working-class prosperity for many generations to come – that means your children’s future as well.

#3 Communist Ideology: A present government filled with socialist ideals, promoting gender transitions for minors, and establishing a Marxist ideological state religion, which is specifically unconstitutional but is supported by international globalists whose motto is: “You will own nothing and will be happy,” as issued by the World Economic Forum in a 2016 video.

#4 Weaponized Federal Agencies: It is not just the IRS, with it’s hundreds of armed agents being fielded in advance of planned new tax rates going skyward and enforcing the police state, but the Department of Justice going after established Catholics, parents at their child’s local school board meetings, labelling them in official documents as, quote: “potential domestic terrorists.”

#5 International Turmoil: The fall of Afghanistan, with no follow-up accountability or firings for those who conducted it. A Russian/ Ukrainian was, spurred on by the military industrial complex and it’s ties to political figures presently in power, a Middle East on fire and Iran fueling it all with the help of billions of dollars released to it by the Biden Administration which is also, as we recently found out, leaking the intelligence of Israel’s defense plans to the enemy as well. Or China being aggressive in it’s attitude toward the U.S. and threatening an invasion of Taiwan.

So, again, ask yourself, “What can I live without?”

Now, you know what to do.

Robert L. Hall is a resident of Marion and has a Bachelor’s Degree in music from the University of Memphis and a Master’s Degree from Florida State University. He is the pianist for Avondale Baptist Church.

Robert L. Hall

The Wordaholic