Paradox of our time

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, less time. We have more degrees, but less sense, more knowledge, more experts, 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 and watch too much TV.

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 and 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 neighbour. We've conquered outerspace 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 learned to rush but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever but communicate less and less...

These are the times of fast food 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.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, pills that do everything from cheer to quiet to kill.

Just because two people argue, doesn't mean they don't love each other. Just because they don't argue, doesn't mean they do love each other.

We don't have to change friends, if we just understand that who are friends, will be changed.

True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.

You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life. You should always leave loved ones with loving words, it may be the last time you see them.

You can keep going long after you think you can't. We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

Source: gc