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Enough is enough!
| Posted on February 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM |
I realised this morning - whilst whingeing because the new phone I've ordered has yet to arrive! - that I am an exceptionally lucky person.
No no no, I haven't won the lottery (no begging emails, please!) and we haven't suddenly been given huge pay rises. No, I mean we're lucky in that we are able to have all of these gadgets around us.
Okay, let me explain: I am writing on a lap-top (much prefer this to the large, desk-bound computer), we have a huuuuuuuge TV (47"!) with dvd player with surround-sound, we have cable TV and a PS3 that allows us to play blu-ray discs, I have a Nintendo Wii (I love it - tennis has never been so accessible!). Both my husband and I have mobile phones already, even tho' I am upgrading to a Blueberry (when it gets here!); we both drive and have our own cars.
But with all those gadgets and grown-up toys, do we really need them? I'm sat downstairs (supposedly recuperating!) and Paul is upstairs on his computer. We are both members of Facebook, and doesn't it tell you something when we have to read what the other is thinking? There isn't a conversation between us - I can sometimes hear him tapping on the keyboard, and I'm sure he would say the same. But we've lost something, don't you think?
I know - I sound as tho' I'm complaining, and I'm really not. Just pondering. And maybe this has come about because I am unable to log onto my email at the moment, and maybe you think I'm just rambling. But, when I see the pictures on the TV of the starving people in the world, and all those who have nothing - it puts into perspective the kind of lifestyle that we have. And we're not rich in the monetary sense at all.
But we are rich in many other things - and I'm beginning to annoy myself by feeling dissatisfied.
When is it enough? When do we say, no more, I've everything I need?
Bit of a heavy question, I know. But I was just wondering.
No no no, I haven't won the lottery (no begging emails, please!) and we haven't suddenly been given huge pay rises. No, I mean we're lucky in that we are able to have all of these gadgets around us.
Okay, let me explain: I am writing on a lap-top (much prefer this to the large, desk-bound computer), we have a huuuuuuuge TV (47"!) with dvd player with surround-sound, we have cable TV and a PS3 that allows us to play blu-ray discs, I have a Nintendo Wii (I love it - tennis has never been so accessible!). Both my husband and I have mobile phones already, even tho' I am upgrading to a Blueberry (when it gets here!); we both drive and have our own cars.
But with all those gadgets and grown-up toys, do we really need them? I'm sat downstairs (supposedly recuperating!) and Paul is upstairs on his computer. We are both members of Facebook, and doesn't it tell you something when we have to read what the other is thinking? There isn't a conversation between us - I can sometimes hear him tapping on the keyboard, and I'm sure he would say the same. But we've lost something, don't you think?
I know - I sound as tho' I'm complaining, and I'm really not. Just pondering. And maybe this has come about because I am unable to log onto my email at the moment, and maybe you think I'm just rambling. But, when I see the pictures on the TV of the starving people in the world, and all those who have nothing - it puts into perspective the kind of lifestyle that we have. And we're not rich in the monetary sense at all.
But we are rich in many other things - and I'm beginning to annoy myself by feeling dissatisfied.
When is it enough? When do we say, no more, I've everything I need?
Bit of a heavy question, I know. But I was just wondering.
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12:47 PM on February 08, 2009
there is only one thing in the world man will never want and that is the poor, the homeless, the jobless, the things that make man feel sad.
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