Why would anyone come to a place where there is smog, traffic, congestion, high crime, extra expenses, and so many rules and regulations? Because that is where you go to make money. Perhaps the only other acceptable answers are to find a mate or to visit others caught up in the greatest race of all...THE RAT RACE
WHAT IS QUIET ?
I speak as a fellow rat...a city boy who always wondered about great open spaces, vast seas, deep rich valleys, thick forests, wildlife, and lovely climbable mountains. I never knew what the word quiet really meant until I visited my first stay a a dude ranch in Northern California...
SLEPT DEEP AND WELL
I went to bed that night after 4.5 hours worth of driving and slept like I never slept before. I was in a dream with a gentle bell ringing amongst the clouds in a Disney type place when late in the morning the next day, I woke up. Outside my cabin was a cow eating grass with a small bell around its neck.
REAL LIFE
It was so quiet it hurt my ears. I felt so restful, peaceful, and content that you could have called my mother names and I would have let it slide. Now, this was real life and that is why I was so shocked. I never had this experience. I learned to survive amongst the school buses, ambulances, car sounds, yelling, screaming, miscellaneous people noises and sirens all my young adult life.
MORE TO LIFE THAN $$$
I got in touch with parts of myself that immediately went to work to make me a better person. I never had this experience before. I liked it a lot. I understood that the meaning of life was not inscribed on a dollar bill. This marked the beginning of my journey out of the jungle...
THE ZOO AIN'T TRUE
The other day, someone showed me a picture of a male and a female lion behind bars in a Zoo some where. Just before that, I watched a outdoor experiment to monitor lion feeding, hunting, and behavior in the wild. I compared the two. The two lions in the Zoo picture while being lions were no longer true lions. They were a beaten up model of their former selves. Their majesty was gone
ARE YOU PEOPLE OR ARE YOU A...PERSON
So it is with human beings who come to the City and assimilate. Gone are their personalities, their true selves and in its place are artificial/superficial substitutes for human beings. Instead of everyone working together, it is now a big blending pot of selfish-ness to not only get head, but stay ahead. Survival with a smile thrown in.
WE RULE...BUT
Mankind knows how to hunt, fish, farm, explore, investigate, invent, and produce via our intellect and compassion which is necessary for us to live as human beings and to help each other as we do. Living in big box units, then getting into mobile units to travel, passing up reality just to get from one point to another to seal ourselves up again remains an empty gesture and supports every man for himself mentality.
TAKE A FEW STEPS BACK
If anyone of us can climb a high mountain then look around, we would understand that something greater than survival, is at work and we would do well to bring that back first....then make your buck. I am reminded what St Augustus said...Love first...then do as you will
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