Rush

     Have you ever noticed that there is never enough time in the day for most people?

     I grew up in the South during a time when it was easier going.  We had meals together as a family.  My mother would work all day at her secular job and then come home and prepare food for an hour or more so we could sit down together for a meal.  Today you have to have a microwave!  And sometimes that’s too slow.  And often family members don’t have time to sit together and eat.  There’s this club, this meeting, this movie.  Or the younger ones are never around.  They’re off with their friends “doing their own thing” as the saying goes (at least it used to).  Or if they are at home everyone sits around the table on their phones or other electronic devices.

     And how about the work?  It doesn’t get any better.  A lot of places are finding it cheaper and faster to “fax” or “text” information to your office or phone instead of using the mail services.  Again there are times when even the “fax” or “text” messages can’t get to us fast enough so that we can keep up with the demand that is placed upon us.  The personal touch of letter writing is falling quickly by the wayside.  Most kids today can’t even write a letter.  If they do there’s nothing in it they can spell right. Y R U trying?  You know what I’m talking about!

     We marvel at the new technologies as they are put on the market.  They make our lives more enjoyable in many ways.  But they also make our lives more complicated!  And with these complications comes the need to be faster, more productive, more “modern”.  Yes, “have your machine call my machine” or “your phone can text mine anytime.”  Perhaps intended as a joke, this is rapidly becoming the true situation for many. How often is it almost impossible to get a REAL person on the phone when you call a business?

     All these advanced technologies have taken a lot of the “personal” touch out of business --- out of life.  The stress and the aggravation of this “modern” world continue each year to take its toll.  There are more nervous breakdowns and heart attacks than ever before.  We find many people today leaving their high paying jobs within the “rat” race and rejoining the “human” race by taking a less stressful position (usually somewhere outside the BIG city).  Maybe what we all need is to appreciate what we have and make the time to enjoy it more!

     Don’t get me wrong.  I love technology (when it works)!  How could I share my enjoyable words with you if it were not for technology?  How could I express my opinion over the vast distances of cyberspace if were didn’t have computers and the internet?

     But, sometimes --- just somewhere along the way isn’t it nice to sit in front of a person?  Sitting face-to-face.  Watching their expressions as you talk together.  Maybe having a cup of coffee or tea.  Not concerned with the hands of the clock, but enjoying a few moments of peace and relaxation!  Isn’t this at times what we would enjoy?

     Then the mind is returned to reality and we gather our things and rush off to once again run as fast as we can in the race of life.  How sad!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Why is there never enough time to get things done correctly,

but there's always time to do them over?"