TAKE YOUR CHOICE
If you could choose the one time in which you would have most liked to have lived your life, what would it be? What one time; what era would you select?
Most people, when asked that question, start at once to classify various times according to what seemed to have been important then, such as peace, war, exploration, adventure, romance, wealth pr,perhaps, travel by river, sea, ocean ,or, more recently space into unknown worlds.
Many come to realize at regardless of which time is decided upon it will not prove to be easy. Nothing that Mankind undertakes is ever as easy as he thinks it might be. Results of any kind come about through the injection of energy. The world is forever congested elements of change, which becomes apparent in many forms. The most common is, perhaps, what we call “wartime” when the confusion boils to the surface in all of it puzzling complexities. We also have times of diversionary “peace”which appears as pauses in the momentarily quiet sequence of warlike aberrations.
All eras have been, and will be, demand the human will to work be activated.. Perhaps you can visualize yourself going back to becoming a well-bred, moneyed, Deep South Plantation owner with hundreds of acres of fine land and servants to do your bidding at every turn. Unless you know how to produce exceptional products and to be able to market them wisely in a complex, world-wide system of turning crops into cash, you are doomed to failure and unhappiness with your chosen lot. Others will take a stand at the opposite extreme and see HDT's “Walden Pond” as scripture inviting them into a world apart from Man. There are many such utopia plans which have caused devotees to avoid other humans as much as possible. That equation, however, seems to me to fail to support the quality of “happiness” which is one of the true keystone for most of us intent on building a better life. other men is to avoid them as much as possible. That equation, however, seems to me to fail to support “happiness” which is the true keystone for most of us intent on building a better life.
In such plan we search for something which we cannot even describe in detail. We are anticipating a place where perfection will be obtained and yet every indication we have yet had tells us such conditions do not exist.
Best be content with what we have or, at least, a simplified version of it all. We need to be thankful for goodness which fill large portions of our lives. The only true pathway to the perfection we seek, idealistically, is to learn, now, to accent the good of being and to exclude that which does not work for betterment.
For all who do that: the best time to live is now.
. A.L.M. August 28, 2004 [c486wds]
