Fw: These days...
Sal (sals@rain.org)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:02:07 -0700
Check this out
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tavegia, Mary
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:45 PM
> >> To: 'jet'; 'tt'; 'pdt'; 'tjt'; Shnurman, Jacob; 'jg'; 'JDG'; 'sv'
> >> Subject: These days...
> >>
> >>
> >> We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
> >>
> >> We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less
> >> time; more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less
> >> judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less
> >> wellness.
> >>
> >> We spend too recklessly, laugh too little; drive too fast, get too
angry
> >> too quickly; stay up too late, get up too tired; read too seldom, 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 lie too often.
> >>
> >> We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; 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 the new neighbour.
> >>
> >> We've 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 split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more, but learn
> >> less;
> >> plan more, but accomplish less.
> >>
> >> We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but
lower
> >> morals; more food but less appeasement; more acquaintances, but fewer
> >> friends; more effort, but less success.
> >>
> >> We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more
copies
> >> than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on quantity,
> but
> >> short on quality.
> >>
> >> These are the time of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short
> >> character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
> >>
> >> These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure
> and
> >> less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
> >>
> >> These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of 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 show window, and nothing in the
> >> stockroom.
> >>
> >> Indeed it's all true, think about it.
> >>
> >> mtavegi@dhs.state.ia.us
> >>
> >
>
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