Life Time and Thoughts

While looking into the soulful brown eyes of a horse at dusk, I was struck with the thought that maybe we aren't supposed to be doing the things we are. We use medications, and technology in order to lengthen and expand our life spans, but what are we doing with this extra time?

The answer is we live in a fast paced world and the only thing we are working towards is money! Not family, not helping each other, just a grimy little piece of paper that our goverment assigned a value to. Through-out history, the average life span has been about 45 years, was it more meaningful, yes, the labor was harder, things were no where close to being as easy as they are today. But when time is shorter it becomes so much more precious. Today money is more precious than our children and we in turn teach them that money is more precious than their children and so the cycle goes on and on.

I ask you as a mother, a sister, a father, a brother, aunts and uncles, cousins, help me stop this cycle. Help me put our greatest joy and most important duty first, our children and slow the pace of this quickly turning world. I would ask you if you could spare 30 minutes or even an hour to take a moment to really see your children and notice what you have missed while you were running to catch up to the rest of the world. Instead of going home exhausted and turning on the television, leave it off and talk with your spouse, with your children, with your parents, with your siblings.

I do not judge and I do not throw stones at any one person, but at everyone including myself, for I too have let myself be swayed by the siern's song of money, only to damn my children with my greedy lust for monatary gain. I do not speak out about not working at all and feeding from the tit of the government, but that people should simply notice what happens when the day is over and the job work is done. Because one day, you may just walk into an empty house and wonder what happened and where it all went wrong.

I ask you think is it really worth it, is money really worth all the pain, aggravation and heartache that comes attached with it? Are our children so commonplace that they no longer have a true meaning other than something we do after we get married? We strive for the American Dream-a house with a white picket fence, a two car garage, two point five children and a dog. Its not real and its not feasible, its an illusion created to give the working class a goal to work towards obtaining.

The world has changed but only because we allowed it by blindling following and not stopping to think about the true cost of that illusion, Our Children. We have sold our children to the Devil, thinking that we were giving them what they needed. What we were giving them is stuff, namebrand, have to keep up with the newest gadgets and junk. We give them ipods, xboxes, computers, tvs and withhold the most important thing our children want and desperately need. Love. We are a nation of empty consumers, nothing has value anymore. It is all for appearences and show, just like our empty lives. We seek to fill voids in our lives and hearts with junk.

I ask you to help me to change this, I was reminded the other day its the small things that mean more than any gradiose gesture ever could. Tomorrow, when you are getting so wrapped up in your busy life, take a moment and greet a stranger, or maybe assist someone that needs help. It doesn't take much, but with one gesture of kindness, it could inspire another and another. Don't let this wonderful country go down the drain and end on such a miserable note.

Godspeed and Bless you.