Well Hello November

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Today I would like to share an intresting qoute I found when reading.

“In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine great flocks of sea gulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, but the gulls don’t know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from the nets. Now the fleet has moved. …

“The shrimpers had created a Welfare State for the … sea gulls. The big birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves and they never taught their children to fish. Instead they led their little ones to the shrimp nets.

“Now the sea gulls, the fine free birds that almost symbolize liberty itself, are starving to death because they gave in to the ‘something for nothing’ lure! They sacrificed their independence for a handout.

“A lot of people are like that, too. They see nothing wrong in picking delectable scraps from the tax nets of the U.S. Government’s ‘shrimp fleet.’ But what will happen when the Government runs out of goods? What about our children of generations to come?

“Let’s not be gullible gulls. We … must preserve our talents of self-sufficiency, our genius for creating things for ourselves, our sense of thrift and our true love of independence.” ["The Celestial Nature of Self-Reliance." Marion G. Romney, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]

I love this! It just brings out the importance of self-reliance so much. We as a people need this, we have gotten so used to relying on things and other people. I think it's time we gain some self-reilaince, and not let others determine our success. We should be in charge of our destiny. I am Thankful that my success is in my hands, and I have the ability to make it great.