The ideal life?

A friend remarked that his ideal life would be to float on a raft in a lake, or swimming pool, and eat and drink and never have to do anything but eat and drink and lay on his raft. Curiously, this seems to be the ideal of many Americans and many people throughout the world: "To lay on a raft in the water and have their food and drink brought to them." I thought for a moment and then had this realization: that what he was describing was the life of an intestinal parasite -- a Tape Worm.  What this Human, with all his intellectual and spiritual potential, aspired to was a life that was essentially the same as a Tape Worm - an intestinal parasite. "To lay on a raft in the water and have his food and drink brought to him."  It was kind of sad, really: all he wanted to be was a Tape Worm and he could have been an authentic Human instead.

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William Schaeffer