{"id":296,"date":"2019-08-05T23:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:35:27","slug":"is-it-live-or-is-it-memorex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/is-it-live-or-is-it-memorex\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Live or Is It Memorex?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the late 70’s and\nearly 80’s, there was a commercial campaign for a video tape that was so clear,\nyou couldn’t tell the difference. During that time, this was revolutionary. For\nthe first time, a recording didn’t have all kinds of visual blemishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2019, this is definitely\nnot an issue. But what is an issue is what we are being told is real. We’re\nbeing told that our society is going down the drain. That our future is in the\nhands of people that eat tide pods. That everyone believes there are 497\ngenders… except you. That all white people are racists. All black people\ncause problems. All cops are crooked. All pastors want their secretaries more\nthan their wives. All teachers sleep with their students. All music stars are\njerks. All men talk down to women. Here’s the reality… that’s not even close\nto the truth. Not even in the zip code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I live my life with the\npeople I do life with, I find a few things. First, they are various races, one\nof two genders, different ages, and don’t eat tide pods. In general, they’re\ngood people. You, those that are reading this, are good people. I encounter\ncops that are changing tires on the side of the road. Pastors that show up to a\nhospital at 2am to be there as comfort for the family. Teachers that buy\nsupplies for children that can’t afford them- when they, themselves, don’t make\nmuch money at all. Music stars being extremely generous. Men that open doors\nfor women and protect them on a daily basis. Dads that go out of their way to\nbe good dads in the face of a fatherless society. That’s what I see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why do we hear so much about the extreme minority? Well, you already know the answer. Media. It’s their job to present news that isn’t everyday, ordinary news. So the mass majority of the country that believes there are two genders, just isn’t news. We all know that actual, literal journalism is almost completely dead in our country. Everything has an angle. The money that supports these media outlets have agendas, opinions that they want to pass off as facts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the reasons this is\npossible is because of our need for drama. If I post a positive story on a\n“Hip” page on FB, I’ll get 10 likes. If say something negative,\ncontroversial, trolling,  I’ll get 10,000\nlikes. It’s just where we are. We are all drawn to problem solving. So here’s\nsome REAL news for you. Just in recent past, the following happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*My 17 yr old daughter, who\nnever wanted to be at my house, said she wasn’t ever comfortable there until\nrecently. She asked if she could spend the night. That is a YUGE development.\nShe is now extremely comfortable here. I had missed my daughter and was hurting\nbecause of the proverbial distance. This small thing felt amazing. It renewed\nmy faith in my parenting. I really wasn’t sure if what I was doing was right.\nApparently it worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*My 18 yr old bonus son called\nme to make sure I hadn’t left to take care of something for him. Then told me\nhe was headed home to take care of it himself. Again, doesn’t sound like a big\ndeal, but thinking of others first hasn’t been his strong suit. This was a very\ngood, grown up move for him. I can’t take any credit for that. I didn’t raise\nhim. His mother and father can look at this and say, “It paid off”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Same 17 yr old daughter and\nbonus 16 yr old daughter attend a Shawn Mendes concert. They get to their\nnose-bleed seats. My 17 yr old says “I’m afraid of heights.” A\ngentleman says, “I tell you what, here are two tickets for front row. I\nwork with Shawn and my job is to find good people like you who were headed to\nthe back row to be in the front row.” Shawn Mendes will never get public\ncredit for that. It won’t be in the news because it’s GOOD news. I don’t know\nhim personally, but the fact is, that’s very generous and kind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*I saw a police officer pull\nover in the rain, get out and change a tire of a mother’s car with her kids\ninside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I saw a woman pay for the\ncoffee of a woman behind her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I saw someone pay for the\nfast food of the car behind them in the drive-thru. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Also saw someone pay for a\nstranger’s gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I paid for a meal at a\nrestaurant for a dad that made me smile. A young man with a wife, daughter and\na newborn. This very young man chose to take his proper role as father and\nhusband. I left him a message, “we need more dads like you in this world.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*After some storms in our\nneighborhood, our neighbor came over at 10pm, in the rain and cut some trees\nthat had fallen in our driveway so our driveway wouldn’t be blocked the next\nmorning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Two young black men, maybe\nteens, saw an elderly white woman struggling to get across the street, so they\nstopped traffic and helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*In the recent hurricanes that wreaked havoc on Panama City, FL<\/a>, my grandmother was one of the more notable victims. The community came together, particularly the young people, and repaired her home and yard. It made the news in PC, FL (Click on “Panama City” to see the story).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS! … This is what our society REALLY is. This is what the majority of the people in our country are like. This is what our future really looks like. This is what young people are really like. Not the loud, whiny, extreme minority that just keeps shouting until someone gives them a pacifier. Not what you see on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Not what the so-called news outlets report. Yes,\u00a0 there are exceptions. But those exceptions don’t represent the majority. Our country, our society is made up of MOSTLY people that are kind, generous, sweet, funny, and overall good people. Don’t be overwhelmed by the extreme news. Most of those stories are isolated incidents. We’re going to leave a pretty good country to our children and Keith Richards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Groeschel<\/a> once said, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.”  Fix what you have to fix. Stop wasting energy on the negative information and negative people in your life. Make your life look like those stories above. Sometimes we look at the fabricated as if it’s the genuine. We get stuck staring at the “Memorex”- the image that isn’t what’s really going on. Stick to the “Live”- the image of what is really<\/em> happening around you. If your world doesn’t look like this, change the direction. The first thing you can do is start every single day with GRATITUDE. From there, you’ll see an immediate difference. So when you look at your life, is it Live… or is it Memorex? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay Classy GP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grainger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the late 70’s and early 80’s, there was a commercial campaign for a video tape that was so clear, you couldn’t tell the difference. During that time, this was revolutionary. For the first time, a recording didn’t have all kinds of visual blemishes. In 2019, this is definitely not an issue. But what is … <\/p>\n

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