Jamung: On "Paradoxes of Our Times"

A friend of mine send me an e-mail with the message below. At the end of the message he wrote, "If you’re too busy to take the time to send this message to someone you love and you tell yourself you will send it 'one of these days', believe me, 'one of these days', you won’t be here to send it!"

So to all my beloved blog's readers, here's the message:

Today we have bigger houses and smaller families.
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less common sense.
More knowledge, but less judgment.
We have more experts, but more problems.
More medicine, but less wellness.
We spend too recklessly;
laugh too little,
drive too fast,
get too angry too quickly,
stay up too late,
read too little,
watch TV too much,
and pray too seldom!
We’ve multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too little, and lie too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We’ve added years to life, not life to years.
We have taller buildings,but shorter tempers;
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less.
We buy more, but enjoy it less.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,

but have trouble crossing the street to meet our neighbours.
We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, learn less.
Plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
We have higher incomes, but lower morals.
We build more computers to hold more information,

to produce more copies, but have less communications.
We are long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion;
tall men and short characters.
More leisure and less fun;
more kinds of foods, but less nutrition.
two incomes, but more divorces.
fancier houses, but broken homes.
That’s why I suppose that as of today, we don’t keep anything for special occasions,

because every day our live is a special occasion.
Search for knowledge. Read more.

Sit on our front porch and admire the view without paying attention to our needs.
Spend more time with our family and friends.
Eat our favorite foods and visit the places we love.
Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment, not only about survival.
Use our crystal goblets. Don’t save our best perfume, use it every time we feel we want it.
Remove from our vocabulary phrases like 'one of these days' and 'someday'.
Write that letter we’ve thought about writing.
Tell our family and friends how much we love them.
Don’t delay anything that adds laughter and joy to our life.
Every day, every hour, and every minute is special.
We don’t know if it will be our last.

Catatan:

1. Sedikit perubahan telah dibuat terhadap cacatan di atas.

2. Post ini dibuat bukan kerana "you won’t be here to send it!" tetapi kerana bahan tersebut dirasakan amat dekat dengan kehidupan kebanyakan kita.