In a world of instance coffee, instance success , failure and fast money, have we lost ourselves in all the hipe of the fast and easy life sold to us my corporate media? Long before I was even born the seeds of this lost path had begun. When we started living life beyond the means in which we live. I am not say that we stop reaching for the stars and our dreams. I am just saying that maybe we should reach them a little smarter, slower and maybe a little wiser. Honestly, I am not even sure what I am saying really. Where is the logic in buying ourselves out of debt with money we do not even have?
We as people of this Earth have forgotten our lessons of the past and our hope for a future beyond our own lives. We live in the passing moments in the hope to catch a glance of our life's only to forget to live it. Many of us work hard, maybe even to hard and forget about living. So in the mitts of our global economic crisis maybe we should take a look at our life's as a whole. Are we better off then we were 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago? The house of cards we built our life's on has come crumbling down and we are all in part to blame. Maybe so more then others, but let us get past that. Its not like we can change our mistakes of our past. But we can learn from them.
What is most important to us? If the way we have lived our life's in the past years wealth seems to be the easy winner of that question. Now we see where that has gotten us. A lot of empty bank accounts and empty homes. But our hearts are still very strong. So where do we go from here as people?
We are at a crossroads in our life. Do we put a band-aid on our life and continue down this path of glory and failure as fewer of use rise to the top and the rest are left behind to pick up the pieces? Do we reset what is important to us, love, family, and respect for our fellow man? Will this 2nd choice be easy? Will it work? Is it just a pipe dream?
I live my life asking myself one question when I make choices in my life, when I make that choice, will my loved ones and myself still respect me and the theme of the 'golden rule' floats in my head. Treat others as you expect others to treat yourself. Sounds pretty simple and maybe even a little holier then now, but in the end will it make this place a better world? I'd like to think it would. Maybe I am just sick in the head. I think we should just take a pause, ask ourselves are we happy with where we are and where we are going in our own life's. Is working for a dream that we have no real hope reaching while missing the life's of the loved ones worth the risk?
I live life hoping I will not be forgotten when I leave this life. Well, at 33 I am not doing so well at that life goal. I have no children to carry on my name, no wife to share our dreams with and most of all I have done little to leave a positive mark in our world. I'd like to think I have many more years to get there, but I guess we never know what is around the next corner.
I'll end my rabbling with that, cause that is all I got for now.
