Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
Jonathan Dunnemann
Basketball is more than a game: It's a path to balance, excellence, and transcendent personal peace.
Do not let the old and feebleminded determine the educational, moral, political and social standard for the next generation.
For in their waning years they still hold to tightly to a history of fear, hatred, prejudices, intolerance and war threaded with reckless imprudence throughout their past.
In their advancing blind sightedness, they foolishly deny the very freedom of choice and self-determination that they once demanded, seized, and re-engineered for a better future.
Their window is lowering while another one is rising through which we can see the early dawn of a rapid and widening splendor of expectancy.
The tattered and worn fabric that once enveloped their period is not a good fit for the shape of these present times.
Rather than attempt to only mend what we once found comfort in we need to take a chance by weaving together new material that will better ensure stability, warmth, and safe covering for today’s cold, naked, and forgotten ones.
Our elders should move to the rear, accept their important role as advisors, and proudly become witnesses to their descendants ascending and handling of greater responsibility as they begin the important duty of moving the country forward and into the tender and emergent ideas for their future.
Let it be known, that the old strings of the fiddle have broken and no longer offer sweat music to the ear or support our ability to make quickstep.
On the other hand, this next generation is anxiously standing by with an accompaniment as vast as the stars in the night and the essential instrumentation of a dawning new age.
The time is now upon many of us to simply get out of the way.