It's 99 days into Donald Trump's Presidency. This morning it is reported, that he has said that the job of being President, is harder than he thought it would be. He says he misses his old life.
Apparently, Trump didn't understand that his quest for approval and validation is a private and personal journey. If he is looking for external validation of his internal worth as a human being, in the eyes of strangers... he will never find peace. When we are missing that essentially spiritual, internal validation that tells us, we are "good enough", we must look inward. The real shame belongs to the person he most respected and craved approval from, long ago, who withheld that affirmation from him. Maybe, they didn't know the importance or the real value it contributed, because they never got it, either.
It is a big mistake to live life, continually trying to collect love and admiration from strangers. We can never collect enough superficial love, approval and admiration from strangers, to use as a temporary soothing balm, filling the sore gaping hole in our wounded inner-child's spirit to permanently heal us, as adults.
Our nation is facing so many problems, both foreign and domestic, that it feels almost overwhelming. America's greatest need, right now is a wise, solid-thinking and reliable leader with a steady hand to guide our country. It's not an easy task and no one doubts the immensity of the job.
Pres. Trump should realize that how he chooses to govern, is not about him and his legacy, but about America and the legacy that the "shining city upon a hill", leaves the world. He is merely an instrument serving to keep the lamp lit.
Tomorrow, Pres. Trump reaches the iconic milestone of 100 days in office. The final tally of his Presidential accomplishments will not reach fruition until day 1,460. In the meantime, the world anxiously waits for his legacy's next chapter to be written in the history book of the world.
From Wikipedia:
America is a shining city upon a hill
"As Ronald Reagan emphasized, America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere."[1]
And, "As Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address to the nation, 'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'"
"President-elect John F. Kennedy said, in an address to the Massachusetts Legislature on January 9, 1961, “During the last 60 days I have been engaged in the task of constructing an administration…. I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella [sic] 331 years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a government on a new and perilous frontier. ‘We must always consider,’ he said, ‘that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us.’ Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, State, and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their grave trust and their great responsibilities.”—Congressional Record, January 10, 1961, vol. 107, Appendix, p. A169..."
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