The paradox of our times

The paradox of our times is that we have bigger buildings but smaller souls; wider highways but narrower minds.
We spend too much but we have less; we buy more but we enjoy less.
We have bigger houses but smaller families. We have more accessories but less time.
We have more jobs but less judgment; more experts but and even more problems; better medicine but less health.
We drink too much, we smoke too much, we spend foolishly, we laugh too little, we drive too fast, we get angry too fast, we go to sleep too late, we wake up too tired.
We read too little, we watch too much TV and we pray too rarely.
We have multiplied our fortunes but we have fewer values.
We talk too much, we love too little and we hate too often.
We have learned how to earn a living but not how to build a life, we have added years to life but not life to years.
We have reached the moon but we have problems when we have to cross the street and meet a neighbor.
We have conquered the cosmic space but not the inner one.

We have done bigger things but not better ones.
We have cleaned the air but polluted the earth.
We have conquered the atom but not our prejudices.
We write more but we learn less.
We plan more but we accomplish less.
We have learned to hurry but not to wait.
We have built more computers, better ones, faster ones, but we communicate less.

These are the times of fast-food and slow digestion; big people and petty personalities; fast profits and shallow relationships.
These are the times were we have two incomes but more divorces; prettier houses but broken homes.
These are the times when we have fast travel modes, single-use diapers, low morality, one night stands, over-weight bodies and pills that bring you peace, happiness, death.

Remember to spend time with the ones you love because they won’t be here for ever.
Take the time to love, to talk, to share the pretious thoughts you have.

To all my friends : thank you for existing.

I read this somewhere, I really liked it and thought to share it with you.