I finished the Tour of St. George after stopping with on the side of a hill with pain in my left thigh in the middle of the race.
The race organizer didn’t think I would push through the frustration and recommended giving up then and there. But, I pushed through the pain and regret of not asking why I didn’t give in and stop the race early to pursue the finish line of the race.
In the rat race in St. George, for a U.S. House Representative, it takes time to make some money and it takes time to get to work. More importantly, it takes grit, self-reliance, and feeling like an asset every night before you go to work to make your dreams reality more so than romantic idealism and power-hungry authoritarianism living life as a flip-flopper standing for conservatism and values of trust, integrity, and personal responsibility.
Two years ago, a sweet, quiet intern from Yale was writing notes for her when I stepped into her office at the Utah State Capitol to ask about laws to defend the freedom of general contractors and home builders of accesory dwelling units in St. George, UT?
She challenged me with clarity, respect, and compassion to first resolve the parking congestion issue in my neighborhood district in Provo, UT at Brigham Young UT.
I later moved from Campus Plaza apartments to Bountiful Court Apartments where I met Tao, a long lost friend studying Mechanical Engineering at BYU who I grew up with in the “babysitting club” in Beaverton, OR.
Before I started working at BYU Outdoors Unlimited washing bikes and renting and selling outdoor gear, I knew that my first step on that critical agenda was to find ways and means to assert rights for a “babysitting club” in the older young single adult ward in my apartment complex.
My roommates in the other room in my apartment were in it and they were private, serene, and mostly kept to themselves and were hardworking, self-reliant and resilient like me.
I imagined that it could be awkward for them to be pressured into talking about getting toddlers to watch TV without crying.
Brigham Young University will need to discuss where to build a parking garage to ensure that people on bikes can navigate the streets without excessive car congestion from extra parents who drive attending the BYU Medical School.
But, what about a club focused on the rights of little kids to grow up on the red cliffs of St. George, UT, riding their road bikes and mountian bikes and stopping on the side of the road or a cliff to stretch their thighs to endure to the finish line with the intent to pursue the right to defend the rights to their land, freedom and the liberty of the natives in their area who deserve to do the bidding of their friends who makes them feel the most at ease and self-reliant?
What would your club be for your cause of liberty and freedom and your rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
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