This one is by Dr. Bob Moorehead, Former pastor of a church in Seattle. This seems cynical, but it's sooo true!
Presenting the Paradox of Our Time:
Presenting the Paradox of Our Time:
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; big men and small character; steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce; fancier houses but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
2 comments:
I would summarize this rant as "we have got everything to be happy, but we don't know how to handle things and screw up everything."
First, I wouldn't accept that it's a paradox of just "our time". The human race has never lived "happily" in its entire history. You know how ancient the ideas of heaven and hell are. Mere existence of such ideas indicate that people are not happy. (Does a 3 year old understand what heaven and hell mean?)
Also, most of the problems exist only in our imagination. The assumption that "if we take off all the bad things life would be oh-so-wonderful" is fundamentally flawed.
As someone said beautifully, things are the way they are because they got that way... one logical step at a time. What we see now is the collective outcome of what every single person in the history of human race has done. There's no point in blaming yourself or others for this :)
@ manki - "most of the problems exist only in our imagination" - Really? I wish they did :) And oh..The intention of this blogpost is not to blame myself or 'man'kind- just an article I like and wanted to share with others.
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