The Challenge

I can't describe my reaction to this:

Challenges—forever present

One might have to agree that challenge is the single-most dynamic that is ever present in human activity. It pervades our lives on all fronts of our existence. During our waking hours or while we sleep, that element abounds, pushing our minds to activate in us the need to think, to make decisions; summoning our will to move the body in one direction or in another. Challenge is always as here is and there is, no less with us!

Within every second a thunderous, unimaginable number of new questions are arriving that attract our minds. They require of us answers. They require of us decisions. Precipitating our actions, questions surround us, engaging us with any manner of assault that we may confront and participate in challenges that are ever manifested. Challenges are relative to our disposition and to the things that are continuously in concert with us in shaping our space and our existence in that space.

Every epoch is described by challenges that confronted its people and the quality of their challenge they bring to them. Our present is not unnecessarily beleaguered by the challenges of new thought processes, new technology, the gravity and complexity of new social conduct. Actually, all is as it is supposed to be, in the generating tide of change.

However, in that tumultuous, all-embracing and persuasive drama, we all have choices. Our choices, critically determined by ourselves, will cause to emanate the desired effectiveness of our times—our chapter!

Our youth are always at a point, as if on the cusp of breaking surfs pushed by tides of the past to uncharted shores. Yet, they are charged with those semantics, when fully engendered, are themselves the ubiquitous riddle in their attempt to bridge with the protean future.

A word of advice beseeches them to inculcate attitudes that would enhance the lineage that is now with them and is a mere glimpse of the eternal gift of continuum in a dimensionality that is already in the seed of ancestral becoming—a meditative enfolding of past, present and future in the vertical stance of the "pendulumnic" dance of now!

And, what is the understanding that must arrive with us in the dance of now? A voice that we are prepared to hear, whispers: giving is the gift of giving itself. When we give, we enter the rhythm of that ever-unfolding gratuitous sea in its bounty of its arrival and retreat—giving as it receives—the action of perpetuity!

Therefore, it is of great incumbency that the youth meditate on the past with the aim of selecting the very best of its efforts that brought the world to this point and with their own steadfastness on them, avail themselves the opportunity, through responsibility, to improve the human lot!

In so doing, they show gratitude for their inheritance of a present that is more settled than they possibly could ever imagine when spuriously compared with the past! Today's challenges are really theirs, but no less significant than to those who gave birth to the today they now enter and wont to make their dwelling place!

Recognition must be brought to what is referred to in some quarters as a framing of "perceptual simultaneity"—an acknowledgement that the present is not capable without the mutual respect of the one for the other—the old for the young, and vice versa. Guard and respect those things that were of yesterday's future—this now present our youth verbosely occupy in the manner that we might have done yesterday! God bless.

LeRoy Clarke

leroyclarke@hotmail.com

Anyone know WTF all that verbosity is trying to say? Or does he simply like the sight of his own... typing? (I can't say liking the sound of his own voice, though I daresay he talks to himself, I figure). I couldn't help but notice in the myriad of prose there that some words actually don't make sense in the context used.

I guess the real challenge is trying to get comprehensive English out of Clarke.