FollowSo the health reform passed. Years ago, I took a week long seminar as part of my sales management training. Subject of the seminar: Change and how to deal with it. Actually, I did well in the ‘test’ they gave us at the end of the week; scored the highest grade ever given by instructor (it’s saved underneath a mock Academy Award I got for sneaking on the set of a Meryl Streep movie, filmed in Maplewood(cover of my novel) and getting in the movie. I was the biggest thing in that scene; Madison Square Garden mustard stained sweater and a US Open cap circa 1997 which I was alert enough to stuff in my back pocket. It was a period scene from 1988.) No one earthbound, sharing chromosomal make-up likes change. Avoiding any political diatribe, health reform is accepted as change; the river flows from the mountain top, melting snows (thank goodness we still have snow to melt and give us bottled water) fuel the gravitational flow. I told my nephew on Facebook a few moments ago, who’s upset about half the American population being upset, that Life’s First Strategy is “you either get it or you don’t.” And those 7 words took me four decades to accept, rationalize, digest, absorb and wear comfortably like those warm winter boots you don’t need socks for, which I let my wife give me as a gift and I love them now. Human nature is a fifty percent thing. Half always get it. Republicans or Democrats. And nothing will change that. Change fails to change the percentile.
When they write history books on all this, my fellow Americans, these will be the good old days. We’ll clench our fists and twitch our noses to get back to March 23, 2010. Bette Davis said in a classic movie scene, “It’s going to be a bumpy night”(or something like that). It’s going to be a bumpy couple of decades, so for today and through 2014 and final implementation of health reform; these ARE the best of times.