America and its people have done a wonderful and generous job in so many ways and means, of providing food, shelter, education, advice, employment, and support to so many other people within their own country and without. Those that gift their time, money, and talents to the better good of humankind surely understand that this is the greatest service that one can provide for another, that indeed this is living proof of being that good neighbor.
While some of us have more talent than others in regards to mental fortitude and imagination, or brawn, or ability to be positively persuasive and to thereby work well with others, each of us, has some useful talent, awaiting only the actuation of it by our dedicated and consistent motivation to do so.
These talents that we have, can be used for all sorts of purposes, of which some of those purposes are positive and beneficial for the greater good of society, whereas others are clearly selfish in their implementation and exploitative of taking advantage of one's own cleverness against another, so as to directly benefit themselves.
The decision about what to do with our talents is our own, as each of us has been gifted with free will and therefore we are not automatons but people that hold the ultimate responsibility of what we do or don't do with our lives. While, truth be told, our individual circumstances are different, sometimes diametrically so, there does come a time when we have to stand upon our own two legs and take full responsibility for our actions, and if these actions are not in conformance of being beneficial or positive, than those initiating those actions must take to heart, the blame for having failed to have done better, for those choices made came from them and not from another.
This then does mean that each day, we have the opportunity to demonstrate in word and in action what we are really about, for this is the very definition of our life. Further, those that claim a religious moniker, or classify themselves as a good person, must live up to those tenets or they have deceived themselves as to whom and what they really are.
This means that those that are gifted with certain talents, and specific skill sets, have an absolute responsibility to develop those talents and those skills further, with the purpose of having done so, if they are true to their faith or true to desiring to be a force of good, to take such and to thereby benefit their fellow humankind for either this Is a nation united, of peoples from many different backgrounds, working together in order to bring forth a better nation, united, or this is a nation of individuals, all after getting their own.
When we do our best, it can only really be our best, if we took the time and made the effort to develop these gifts fully, in order to improve ourselves as well as to help others. We must therefore live in accordance and in harmony with justice, love, truth, kindness, and the diligence in seeing that our actions have come to successful fruition, for if we truly want to show our appreciation to our parents, and to our neighbors, and to our country, than we will wisely use our talents well, for this is our living testimony to others.