I've been thinking about the ways we measure our lives worth. In todays society the emphasis on gaining riches and having everything that is promoted as "must haves to be a somebody" are constantly in our faces until we are brainwashed to believe that it must be true. Since we can't take anything with us when we pass away why does it matter so much?

Like a child at Christmas the thing we want so bad soon grows old in the pursuit of something else that may make us more fulfilled. The constant struggle to find what we so desperately feel will be the answer becomes all consumming. We lose sight of what is really important and lasting in this life. Look at all the chaos in the world. The third world countries that long for an extra piece of bread. The people who lose their life and belongings to natural disasters. I would be severely ticked off too if I had spent my life working to gain as much as I could only to have it washed away with the fury of mother nature.

But sometimes it seems to be the only thing that makes us remember the truly important things in life. Our families,friends and loved ones. I know I have recently discussed this topic before but I am deeply bothered by the shallowness of humanity in todays day and age. I hate turning on the t.v to see another disaster, or another missing child, another murder or suicide. What has happened to us?

Why can no one seem to stay married, with the divorce rate increasing every day? I rememeber years back when you were embarassed to say your parents weren't together. Now it seems unbelievable when you hear someones' parents are together still after more than five years. Is modern technology to blame? Is it because everything is so much easier to attain that we have learned to take everything for granted? We lose so much in the process. I long to go back to the caveman days where the man went out and found food for the family.

The woman cooked and cleaned and made clothes. Sure there wasn't much to that way of life but it was all about survival and maintaining unity for ones own. It was not filled with unsatisfied wants, or unrealistic goals. It was simple and complete. I am not debating that there haven't been many benefits that have helped in modern day society with everything new we have accomplished in our growth as mankind;it's just that sometimes you have to wonder if we truly are so much more better off in the psychological aspect of it. Well I will leave you with that thought to dwell on. Here's to hoping man will learn the errors of his way and seek to rectify them before the damage is irrepairable.