This is my first post of the new year, and still caught in a reflective mood, I'm inclined to share with you a passage about "Paradox" my friend emailed to me. Here goes:
Paradox of our Times
Today we have more degrees, but less common sense;
more knowledge, but less compassion.
we have more experts, but even more problems;
more medicine, but less wellness.
we've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
we've added years to life, but not life to years.
we've bigger and fancier houses but smaller families and broken homes;
more technological conveniences, but less time and connected-ness.
we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider highways, but narrower viewpoints.
we write more, but learn less;
plan more, but accomplish less.
we've learned to rush, but not to wait;
we are long on quantity; but short on quality.
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 split the atom, but not our prejudice.
we spend more, but have less;
buy more, but enjoy less.
we've multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values;
we've higher incomes, but lower morales.
we talk too much, listen too little, get angry too quickly, laugh to little,
stay up too late, wake up too tired, spend too recklessly, drive too fast,
read too little, watch tv too much, lie too often and pray too seldom.
These are times of fast foods and slow digestion;
tallmen and short characters'
steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the Paradox of our Times....
