Have yet to hear from the dream job selection committee that weeks ago received my resume and copious amount of required documentation that was necessary for me to apply for this job that has been an obsession for 25 years............what has happened to courtesy and common decency and respect for our fellow man in our brave new contemporary cyber world ?.......Just finished reading a blog from a poor guy who has sent out over 2000 resumes in the last two years in a still unsuccessful attempt to find employment. He stated that most of his submissions were totally unacknowledged by all those potential employers and that out of all those resume submissions, he only received a handful of replies and even fewer rejection notices!!...for the most part this gentleman was totally ignored!! this is wrong!! it seems to me that in today's world whatever powers at be treat others of perceived lesser status as meat...not worthy of consideration or acknowledgement. How many times have we read or heard this same story about someone who is trying to find work and diligently remits to these prospective employers all the required documents and vitaes.... and resumes, and recommendation letters only to be totally ignored..no communication from these employers that this info was received...no notification that their application is being considered or even that it has been sent to the circular file..........nothing, we are nameless, faceless, non-entities in the cyber-world mindset of so many people today.....there is no loss of dignity to the individual human spirit for one being out of work and trying to secure employment..PERIOD!...but yet, this seems to be the prevailing attitude of many in this "screw you Jack, I've got mine" world who are fortunate enough to have a secure job or who have hiring decision input power over those who are in need employment.............this world scares me now because it seems to me that the collective noble conscience of our spirit as compassionate human beings has totally eroded away......why do so many of us look to past generations for solace of personal spirit?
Generations lost....the last surviving American WWI vet passed away this year, 2011!.. about 1100 WW II veterans die each day! About 400 Korea Conflict veterans die each day. About 300 Viet-Nam veterans die each day. Sadly, the non-veteran counterpart members of these same generations are also passing on at probably the same or slightly lesser rate. This is normal....we are all born to die...life is a series of transitions that culminates in death....but why are these statistics so important you ask? The real tragedy in the passing on of these generations is that with their loss, so it seems to me, is also the loss of the last remnant's of our nobility of spirit as a society, lost is our collective cultural literacy, lost is our societal compassion for each other as Americans, lost is our sense of duty as patriots...it seems to me that our country is no longer a citizenry composed of a cohesive agglomeration of American patriots all of differing heritage but bound together by the concept of the American spirit. These statements are in no manner way shape or form meant to even imply that the American spirit is not well found and guarded in the hearts of the brave men and women who now comprise our armed forces and who are sacrificing daily in three foreign conflicts. These men and women embody the American spirit and are committed to safeguarding all that is America; however, are there enough of them to be the catalysts for the maintaining our heritage???? There is no doubt that as a society we are now transitioning.......but to where? Don't know what this has to do with sailing.....have to think about it.....
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Be well my friends...................
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