Some Facts to Consider About Life Today
but shorter tempers:
Wider freeways
but narrower viewpoints.
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.
We have more degrees,
but less sense;
More knowledge
but less judgement.
More experts,
but 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 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 hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living
but not a life.
We've 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 neighbor.
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 predjudice.
We write more,
but learn less.
We plan more,
but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush,
but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communication with those around us.
These are the times of fast food 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,
but less fun.
More kinds of food,
but less nutrition.
These are days of 2 incomes,
but more divorces.
Of fancier houses,
but broken homes.
Throw-away morality,
one-night stands,
Over-weight 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.
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