How many?

How many of you were lied and cheated by every single authority you had as a child? How many of you were conned into getting a student loan for useless degree, or invested in a career that was just outsourced ten years later? How many of you were lied to by your bosses and company of employment about pay and responsibility? How many have been terminated without warning and yet you are always required to give two weeks notice? How many of you find that you have absolutely no friends from grade school or junior high now that you are an adult? How many of you find that you do not even know the names of the neighbors in your own apartment building, on the same floor? How many of you have been cheated and lied to by your own parents or siblings, or aunts and uncles and cousins? How many of you see no evidence of the moral behavior you were taught in grade school in actual practice in government or business?  How many feel that petty dishonesty and fudging the numbers is only good business and an unfortunate necessity of life?  How many of you feel any responsibility for the homeless people living and dying right on the sidewalks of your cities? How many of you have adequate medical care? How many of you are taking anti-depressant medicine for which there really is no workable theory of how they function? How many care about anything anymore except maintaining the barest necessities of survival, because even that is almost too difficult?


Additionally, How many of you are more than twenty pounds over weight?  How many of you smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, eat cheeseburgers, smoke marijuana, or abuse prescription drugs?  How many of you eat junk food, candy and drink carbonated beverages?   How many of you find it is "necessary" to cheat at work, and in life, just to get by?  Cheating is a requirement?  How many of you feel like you have no real friends and only polite, or fun, associates?  You are absolutely alone?   How many of you are actually living the life you thought you would be living today when you considered the question  twenty years ago?   How many of you are quietly self fulfilled and satisfied, yet still challenged enough to be willing to struggle for worthwhile goals?   How many of you are working for the common good?    How many of you can't wait to wake up every morning and eagerly go to bed at night in preparation?   How many of you are generally physically fit with no major pains or limitations?  How many of you have good eyesight without glasses?  How many of you can sing, and dance, and recite poetry from memory?   When was the last time you had a good laugh, a hearty chuckle, or held a genuine sense of comradery with any group?  Do you remember your dreams?   

When was the last time you felt truly alive?

Just curious...

Why do you think that might be?





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William Schaeffer