An anoccment - Leasons learned

Just making the announcement I returned to Vietnam to complete my book, to put the final touches on the story about my life, more accurate is to tell about what I learned living a very remarkable life.  

I left San Diego on the 10 of October a day after I was able to vote early at the voting center in San Diego. Yes, I will say that if America dose not vote to put a check on Mr Trump, we as a people deserve what ever befalls us. Not just the 50% that cast their vote but the 50% that wear to busy to vote in our democracy. I’m not sure witch group I’m the most disappointed with, those who voted out of negativity or those that have so little respectful for our democracy or our simply a little insane. When you live in a hard won democracy and disregard it by not event voting you run a 100% at rick of loose it !

Now in Vietnam I could add a video of the kids and children play in the park, the modern sky-line of the rapid advancement of Vietnam. Pictures of delicious natural food eaten or the smiles on the faces of many with less stress then in America. Vietnam a nation where 75% of the people our under 30 years old. I’m always being asked by college kids to do an interview for a school project, or maybe an excuse to practice English ?

The interviews our all pretty basic, I surprise them in the interview with my number one reason why I love Vietnam today, I always say because of the fact their our (NO GUNS). Event few Policemen have guns, if so they our seldom seen. No advertisement or talk about Gun’s, so the concept of a shooting not event contemplated. The difference is Great ! These kids can’t contemplate a nations where such things our common, it's not event possible for them to understand. Nothing is more rewarding to me then this. I was hear 50 years ago in the American war when their were millions of guns and devices to kill others with. Today -0- in public, this tells me so much about who the Vietnamese people our verses us in America ! The young can’t conceive and our surprised by my statement because they never think about such things. 

A point about my book it's not so much about the life I lived as what I learned living it, an example of my writings and things learned. 

I learned a long time ago in life that people our all different. One of the big difference I noticed over time was that for some people they have a need to Judge the others, as if it was an article of faith, or a necessity for their life, while for others it was not. This difference in people has been seen so often over time it simply was impossible to not see it as one of the basic difference in people. Today I simple call or realize it’s because of peoples insecurity with-in themselves. 

To me it’s essential for man kind in our world of 7-Billion people, in our interconnected world of advanced communication, of depended commerce and travel. We have to train our selves, educate our selves, our children to this fact. (We must have respect for and genuine expectance of each other as human beings first). This before anything else is necessary for us to advance, to survive, to create a world better then what I found just 72 years ago.    

This simple thought, it's not based on any religion but basically a human feeling, a higher thought of humanity, something man-kind must understand to move forward, to overcome so many of our ill’s, our real world problems. 

After all it’s this other concept (That somehow another human being could be worth less then ourself's, is less then ourself that's at the heart of so much despair, of so much harm and pain yet today). Yes all religions preach it but it’s simply a higher thought of humanity. After all it was Human’s that created all the different Gods and belief systems. No God created any human-being, we simply evolved as stand alone bio-logic beings, members of the human race, and that in it’s self is very special.         

 

Richard L Iverson

Remember: Happiness is Oh so simple, that a grateful heart is the beginning of wisdom, that Effort is essential for anything worthwhile in life !

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