~ from OCTOBER 2004 ~
We are so careful with our cars, ironing our pants, finding cel phone reception – and so careless with each other. Our lives are taken up, filled in, boxed together, crowded and packed with such mean stuff. Simple human decency is lost; there is no room for it, not with the rush that is modern living. Communication is instantaneous. Information flies by at light speed, with no time to process or comprehend what it all means.
Where are we going and what are we losing?
We need to wake up. We need to slow down. We need to listen. We need to pay attention to what is going on around us, and not just with what directly affects us.
A return to manner and courtesy, nothing more.
No more tardiness, no more talking on cel phones in restaurants, no more blindly going about our business oblivious to the person behind or in front of us.
I’m no better than you on any of these counts.
We need to start somewhere.
All is not lost.
And yet…
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