Let me tell you what I know about you.. you're not happy. I don't mean at this very moment or even this week... but with life in general, you're not happy. Even if you deny this, there are times when you're not and there will be more.
Let me tell you what I know about you.. you're not happy. I don't mean at this very moment or even this week... but with life in general, you're not happy. Even if you deny this, there are times when you're not and there will be more.
Let me put a few things into perspective about just how stupid that is (I don't mean you, but rather the fact that it's true for everyone).
Do you realize that humans have been trekking around this big ball in space for a few hundred thousand years... not just a thousand, not tens but hundreds of thousands. Now, think about what life was like about 100 years ago; the car was just being invented, phones were around but chances are your house didn't have one, the toilet was outside in an outhouse, they didn't even have encyclopedias much less Wikipedia, there was no flying in planes... life was very different!
Now think about this, most people lived in small towns, say... 1300 people. They never had any problems finding their significant other, raising a family or growing old together.
Today, most people live with 1300 people in their building! They live in cities of millions and is that good enough? No. Online dating/match making sites are the hottest thing there is right now because so many people are scared they'll never find that perfect love and they need to look all over the globe!
What happened?
Imagine living in Europe during a time when a plague raged through the entire continent and you knew that even if you were one of the very very lucky that survived, everyone you knew was likely going to die. Imagine living in Asia in a time when you knew that Genghis Khan could come through at any moment and destroy everything.
Today, most people feel like they have nothing to live for despite having a cell phone, home phone, 9 email accounts, a fax machine, instant messaging and a bunch of other ways for people they know all over the world to be able to reach them.
What happened?
A few hundred years ago, most people never left their town, much less traveled the world. Most people never even saw pictures of anything out of their city! They heard stories or perhaps made one voyage from one place to another for a new place to live but consider that a few hundred years ago, it would take YEARS to travel across North America from east coast to west coast.
Today people can skip across the continent in under 5 hours, get to the other side of the planet in 23 hours or so.... even just get in their car and be in the next city in a few minutes! But people have no desire to do that, no time, don't care.... or, they get themselves down about how "impossible" it is to just get up and go somewhere.
What happened?
Grab your computer mouse, open a book, watch a movie... see what life was like and you'll notice that those people weren't the miserable sacks of self pity pessimistic bunch that we are today and ask yourself...
What happened?
