Don't Forget

I'm going through another "enlightened" phase.

The other day I met a gentleman that didn't own a television. If that the first thing that comes to you mind is, "How can someone not own a television?", then you are watching too much television!

I had two experiences in big homes recently. One was home I was in while helping a painter. It was a huge home and looked that way both inside and outside. A fairly young couple live there with their two or three kids. The other was a big four bedroom home that I was showing to a lady looking for a new place. She loved it, but it was too far away for her. The other thing she said was that it was a little smaller than what she was thinking of. This home was a $340,000 home way out in the country. In the suburbs, it would fetch $500,000 easily. It sits on 2.5 acres of land, and the four bedrooms I mentioned earlier, are huge. But it was a little smaller than what she really wanted.

The point is that we've been spoiled. We're wealthy and we have lots of technology. If you're reading this on a computer screen in a heated room, chances are you've never really known what it is to work to survive. People are dying of starvation elsewhere, but here a $340,000 home isn't good enough. Somehow we've fooled ourselves into believing we work hard and we deserve everything we have and more. We don't deserve it. We're just lucky that we were brought into the world where we are. Don't you dare forget it.