A Speech About Men

This is a good article:

God and the world need men who will stand in the gap... men who are not for sale; men who are honest, sound from centre to the heart's core; men with consciences as steady as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels; men who can tell the truth and look the world right in the eye; men who neither brag nor run; men who neither flag nor flinch; men who can have courage without shouting it; men in whom the courage of everlasting life runs still, deep, and strong; men who know their place and fill it; men who know their business and attend to it; men who will not lie, shirk, or dodge; men who are not too lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor.

by a Senator Frank Carlson.

There are far too many males who have neither consciences, nor values, nor inhibitations, and don't deserve to be called men. The good senator's description may perhaps be a little idealistic, but it's a speech- and a good speech must use any means necessary to get the message through. The message is simple: Men need to be men.

Dreams

Lately I've been doing something I don't usually do: dream. In the past four days I have had 3 dreams, the last one having occurred last night, and all pretty darn realistic ones too. Typically I can count on having a deep dreamless night, but with the onset of my increased nocturnal imagination it's like going into the movies at night instead of my bedroom. Not that I wake up tired or anything like that- it's just unusual.... and I find myself wondering how long this is going to keep up.

Apparently dreams are a way your brain tries to tell you things or sorts things out, a method which the subconscious mind uses to communicate with the conscious mind. In that case, my mind must speak in two different languages and live on different continents. If anyone can interpret dreams, I'd really like to meet him, because the messages I'm trying to tell myself are very odd to say it lightly. In brief, the first dream was about a nightclub (I have never visited a nightclub before), while the second one was about Harry Potter. If there's a hidden message in these two dreams, I have yet to fathom it. Neither one was similar to the other in feeling, characters in the dream, or location.

My most recent dream however, takes the cake. I couldn't even tell that I was dreaming, it seemed that real. The dream location was a very familiar one to me- it happened in my house. The content I hesitate to reveal, though one of the characters from my first dream somehow played a prominent part in this one. A recurring character in two completely different dreams on two different nights.... that's a first for me. Maybe it's a sign? I'm starting to think that it is, the trouble being I have no idea what the sign is about. Hopefully more dreams will clear the picture up.

Looking forward to tonight.