Here is an Article that a friend sent to me that I really enjoy. It kind of sums up how life has changed and how i feel about things. Zylo and I really enjoy the outdoors. We enjoy having fun and dont really care about materialistic things. I think sometimes people with the most money are the most unhappy people. They live behind what they buy and don't appreciate the small things in life. I did a placement on a floor at the hospital for sick children working on kids with a terminal illness called Cystic Fibrosis. I guarantee that these kids and parents don't give a shit about money or what they have. This placement taught me to live life to the fullest every single day and to appreciate how lucky I am. They appreciate the small things and each day that they get. I think more people should live this way.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have
taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
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.AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
