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The Manchurian Candidate 2018
Live In The Moment
Today, well lived makes every yesterday a mem- ory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
Kalidasa
Empowered Greetings. Life
might have some limitations, but you don't have to live life with limits. Release your mind and your spirit from the limi- tations that other people have place on you. You can do what- ever you can imagine.
You can be all that your heart dreams of. You can have whatsoever you desire. You don't have to wait to live a full and fulfilling life. Let go of the limits that you've placed on yourself. Eliminate any self doubts you may have about your success in life, by adopt- ing the idea of learning to live in the moment.
To live in the moment, fol- low your heart and not always your head. Your head wants to rationalize everything. Your head considers the ‘nos’ of the naysayers. Your head worries about the “what ifs” in life.
What if it doesn't work? What if they don't like me? What if it doesn't look like or turn out the way I envisioned?
Your heart sees and feels the joy and experiences the happi- ness of just doing it, allowing nothing to hold you back. Lunging forward with excite- ment, knowing that yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised. Therefore, you live in the moment.
To live in the moment does- n't mean you live your life without restraints, ethics, morals or values. Instead you live your life true to them, while living out your purpose and discovering your daily po- tential. To live in the moment is to live out your passions. It's to live doing the things you love. Enjoying life with the people you love and those that build you up, encourage you and embrace all that you have to offer.
I believe that when you live in the moment, it equips you to develop yourself, as well as your self-worth and it em-
powers you to instantly up- grade your life. It opens you up to trying new things, welcom- ing new ideas and availing yourself to new adventures. When you think about it, to live in the moment is to bring your dreams about your future into the present.
Until next column, be en- couraged to live well by living in the moment.
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I n 1962, first featuring Frank Sinatra (and in a later version starring Denzel Washington), a film was introduced whose story line was
based on the so-called Korean Conflict of the 1950s. The plot centered on a fictional American GI who is kidnapped and brainwashed by North Korean forces then sent back home to America as a “sleeper” double-agent whose hidden objective is assassination of his former allies.
The antagonist almost succeeds in his das- tardly double-agent escapade, but at the last minute, is undone by the good guys. The name of the movie was The Manchurian Candidate. And it was a Box Office smash.
But what if, years later, the story had become real and there were no heroes to come to the aid of the nation?
Even now, people in high places are saying it. Something is wrong. The President of the United States is treating traditional allies as distrustful adversaries, and treating traditional adversaries as friends.
Take for instance, the brusque way he treated G-8 allies recently, versus the “Bro-mance” he’s hav- ing with North Korean and Russian leaders. Openly flirting with giving North Korea the possi- bility of carte-blanche clearance of U.S. and allied troops from South Korea.
If he’d been allowed to get away with it, the orig- inal Manchurian Candidate movie character could not have done worse.
What we’re saying is, President Trump seems not to be himself . . . or maybe, he is indeed, being himself . . . and that’s what worries us and millions of people around the world.
When fiction flirts too closely with reality (or has already become reality) then the interior di- rector steps down, and the original, not-fictitious American Constitution steps back in.
After all, this is not 20th Century Fox.
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