Once again I have about 4 blogs that I started on and never finished…maybe one of these some of them will get there. I’m just hoping that this one will meet a different fate.
On to my big philosophical thought of the day…
As I was sitting here going through song after song on YouTube- starting with “Beach Boys” and onto “Queen” I was really starting to think that some evil force has delayed my birth by about 30 years. Such great music was created in the 60’s and 70’s, and even 80’s! Just the though that I will never be able to see “Queen” and Freddie Mercury in live concert- breaks my heart. What also lead me to wonder, if I was old enough to follow pop culture at that time which path would I have taken- stay conservative with all the old values or go all out liberal.
And to be honest with you, I have no idea what kind of path I would have chosen. I started out living under communism what parents absolutely opposed , too many of my family members had suffered from the occupancy of Latvia and the regime of not having any freedoms and fearing to express what they believed in. I mean I flunked Russian in second grade and my parents were somewhat OK with it, if my memory is not failing me my mom might have even been supportive of that. We took part in Baltic Chain and cried when this song came out :
And when 1991 rolled around the corner and USSR army took over the streets of Riga and took over the TV, the radio and brutally made themselves present at the “Preses Nams” building where all the newspaper and magazine offices were, and Latvian people barricaded the important government buildings to not let Russian OMON (Special Militia Force Brigade (Russian acronym OMON) ) , my parents welcomed the change with their arms wide open. In August of that year my dad illegally distributed the paper that he worked for, out of the trunk of his car. Yet I do not see any similarities to events that occurred in my young childhood to those that were going on in USA some 25 years earlier.
Either way, I am loosing my trail of thought and going to finish this blog up with conclusion that back in the 60’s and 70’s I would’ve probably stayed quite conservative. Even though I was raised to question the order of things and challenge the norm, what is making a bit difficult for me to stay a very devoted Christian , because any kind of religion is more about following than questioning…
In the end I am happy to be living in “my time”- in these times we have and I am grateful to have the freedoms that my sons are growing up with. PEACE OUT (wink, wink) !!!
