“History won’t judge us for the day we left, but for what we left behind”

Sunday morning is when you can get a little more intellectual in terms of politics if you don’t really care – or don’t have time to – during the week. George Stephanopoulos show at ABC is more like a debate where intellectual people, at least apparently, give their opinions about Politics. These days, the most important issue seems to be the Elections. The whole nation seems to be very concern with the type of government America will have next. Nothing is for sure at this point, but one thing is certain: people want change.
A big portion of the debate last Sunday was on Mc Cain’s response to an reporter, who asked his view on Bush’s comment that “If necessary USA will stay in Iraq for 10 years”. Mc Cain’s answer seemed to be even worse, “We’ll stay there for 50 years, if necessary”. Chokingly stupid, right? But even more stupid (if you can get that far)was the comment of Senator Lindsey Grandham on McCain’s response saying that “Mc Cain didn’t really mean how he sounded”. He continued, “History won’t judge us for the day we left, but for what we left behind”.
Really? Is what you get more important than how you did that?
I’ve been wondering about intentions these days. Intention is what moves us toward or away from something, and because of this; intentions determine the quality of our actions. An expression in my language says something like this: Your actions have to make you feel hot, have to make you tangle. You have to be 100% sure of why you doing whatever you doing.
On this same last Sunday, I had a meeting with some people I’ll present a paper with. The reason of the meeting was to discuss the book we had to read and will present. The presentations is by the end of the month, the reading… who knows? Nobody read the book. Still, everybody – including me – left their homes on the sacred hours of Sunday and came to school to do nothing. Why?
Time seems to have lost its importance, because in the end things will get done anyway, right? Wrong. Things will get done, but which type of things?