Daily Cascade

Hello, George Washington!

Prompt: Contacting the Dead
How would you like if we lived in a world where contacting the dead were as easy as making a phone call? Who would you contact: family, friends, or any famous persons from the past?

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How would I have liked it? I would have loved it! Yet, God knows what he's doing and there is a good reason we can't contact those who have passed on. That reason is pests like me. Also, I would not only pester everyone before me but also, lazy me, I'd end up learning nothing on my own for I'd be asking for help, right and left.

Who would I contact? First, everyone I knew in this life, starting with hubby and uncles, aunts, grandmother, teachers etc. I'd always be asking for their help or opinion or comforting words. It wouldn't be fair to them, would it!

Family and those I knew in this life aside, at this very moment, I would especially try to get the help of George Washington and Marcus Aurelius. I would ask them to please stop the political mud throwing in the name of presidential or any other political campaign. I mean promises and offering possible agendas would be okay. But it bothers me when an ad by one candidate insults and puts down the opposing candidate with expressions like, "She lives in a bubble," or "He doesn't know whether he's coming or going!" etc. or even worse.

If I were any younger, I'd start a group that would probably be called something like, "Polite Campaigning" or some such thing. At this moment, I want to say I shall not vote for anyone who insults and does such attacks on the others, but they all do it or their campaign managers and groups are to blame.

And now, although I can't get in touch with Marcus Aurelius and George Washington, I hope someone from the other side hears my plea and intervenes. Maybe I can't contact anyone as if making a phone call, but I'm hoping that those on the other side instill in our political candidates some human decency, integrity, and politeness.