After watching the new Alice In Wonderland, released last year, I was amazed at the timeliness of its message. Like Alice, we have lost our Muchness. We have forgotten to think of six impossible things before breakfast.

We have let the media tell us what to think about events in the world, in our nation, in our state and in our own backyard. We have let other people tell us who to love, who to hate and who to trust.

We have forgotten the battles we have already fought and won. We have retreated into the hole, the cave, the house and drugged ourselves with TV, muscle relaxers and ice cream.

It is time to go back to the beginning, go back to our strength, go back to our old honored heroes, trusted friends and simple priorities.

We don’t need the magazines to tell us how to decorate our homes. We don’t need advertising to tell us what to buy. We don’t need the government to tell us what is and isn’t good to eat. We don’t need legislation to make us act a like nice, polite One World drones.

It is time to remember who we are. It is time to know our neighbors and help our friends. It is time to love all those who we come into contact with, but not allow them to take advantage of us.

Why are there successful scams? Because we choose to believe without asking questions. Why are there immoral men elected into office? Because we allow it to be so, fail to get to know them and vote for the name that we have seen on posters or flashed across the TV. We still trust that everything will turn out all right.

Once we have been through a battle, we cannot rest. There are always more battles on the horizon and we must prepare to meet them. We are all in a battle now. We are all tightening our financial belts, using our time in a different way, trying to find more time to spend with our families, and doing without luxuries that we used to think were necessities.

“It’s only going to get worse,” we have heard it said. “It will get better,” we have also heard it said. Who is right? Look carefully and study who is speaking. Suits and ties on TV do not know us. They do not live where we live. They haven’t experienced the loss that we have experienced. They have their own agenda. What is it? Find out who the speaker is and you will have an inkling as to the motivation behind the hope or the reason behind the doom and gloom.

We should not be complaining about all the things that have changed, why they changed, whose fault it is that they have changed, all the while wringing our hands in despair. We must find our muchness.

We need to recount our battles, remember the difficult times we have already come through and sharpen our swords for the next go-round.

We need to decide how we want out children to be raised and taught and disciplined, and not leave it up to people we barely know.

We need to decide who and what we want to read, write, learn about, listen to and follow.

We need to stop following the crowd. The crowd has no discernible goals, does not care about the community and changes its mind on a daily basis. The crowd doesn’t care about us.

We need to shut off the TV, radio, Internet and put down the glossy magazines and newspapers just for a day or two. We need to stay out of the malls and big name stores just for a little while. Then we need to go to the park, or sit at the playground or in our back yard and search our mind for what is really important to us.

If everyone took their liberty and freedom seriously, deciding deep within themselves what is the most important thing, we would have a much happier place to live. The discussions would be livelier, deeper and more heated. There would be lots more people running for public office, lots more people doing good deeds and getting to know their neighbors, and maybe even less crime because we’d all be walking our neighborhoods.

But all this takes effort, continued effort, and an on-going vigilance. Once a major battle in our lives is won, or lost, we have little time to rest before the next battle. That is life. That is what we were built for. Humans can endure much more than we are enduring at the present time.

We all have Muchness. Find yours and use it.

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