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Success
Today, I was thinking about why no one at a Yahoo! group which I go to occasionally seems to be having any real success in their actions. Namely, getting around having to have a driver's license when they merely want to travel. This particular group has well over 5 thousand postings on it, and most of the people there seem to have good intentions, but no one there can say definitively, "this is how you do it" yet. So, I started to think about that little anomaly a bit, trying to figure out the WHY for it. And as it often happens, all of a sudden, it came to me. Firstly, we should find out what success is. Let's define it. Now what is the definition of success? It appears that it's the result of the doing of something correctly. So if success isn't coming, then something must be done wrong to some degree. For instance; Is it the right action to take? Is that action being done the right way? Is it the right time to do it? The right place? and probably some other questions too. What is messing up the process so that success isn't occurring?
If we want to tie our shoe laces, we have to take hold of them and perform the needed twisting and pulling actions in their proper sequence in order to get tied shoe laces, right? So what do we have to do in order to get out on the roads and highways in order to travel freely? Whom do we have to contact to find out this data? How about putting the feet of the ones who are supposed to have this data to the fire? Maybe, just maybe, we should stop for a minute, and ask not only of ourself, but the ones who are supposed to know, "just what am I doing wrong here?". Why can't I prevail? What do I have to do in order to win? If the courts can say that we are wrong in our actions, then they should also be able to tell us what we need to do in order to prevail and how to do it.
If the ones who run the court system and various administrations are really public servants, then why don't they serve us and answer up these kinds of questions? Is it because they do not perceive of themselves as such, but more like masters over us, watching out for our "welfare"?
Maybe THAT is the kind of logic which we should be using in our search for an administrative remedy. Perhaps if we were to look at the issues from more than just our own, and sometimes too narrow a point of view, some answers will pop out at us. Instead of charging ahead with the mindset that we are right in every way, we could slow down for a moment and ask what we are doing wrong and how we should go about correcting it. My head isn't so hard that it can stand up to being beaten against a brick wall all day long, day after day.
If we are in the right, then let's get the data which is needed to prove it. And what better source of that proof than the ones who claim that we are wrong? Does any teacher at any school tell the students that they are wrong in their replies, but not tell them why? Some of these public servants might be inclined to put forth the argument that they are not teachers, there to dispell our ignorance. And to that I would answer, "then you may not say that my ignorance of the law is not an excuse, if you are in fact acting to keep me ignorant".
Questor
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