We live for so long.
We think life is short because our day passes by so quickly, then we have to sleep, wake up and do it all over again.
In the grand scheme of things, we have so many days of life that time is rather in abundance.
Everyday we learn something new, we do something we haven't done before but the amazement and wonder of it fades or is dulled by the fact that we don't see nor enjoy what it is we're doing.
We're looking forward to tomorrow, to the excitement of things that are to come, the extravagant, the much more visually appealing, the social uplift.
We are given so much in abundance now.
Previously, a holiday meant staying at home and relaxing.
Currently, it means blowing thousands of cash to jet set to another part of the world.
Previously, eating well meant food to fill your stomach.
Currently, it means to go to a fancy restaurant and blow thousands of cash for cuisine from another part of the world.
Previously, salt was considered a valuable spice.
Currently, it means an essential part of cooking and we are consuming too much of it to the point of killing ourselves.
Previously, fast foods weren't the norm.
Currently, it means obesity for most of the world, harmful nutritional facts where the french fry is considered a fibrous, nutrient rich vegetable.
We live for too long, our bodies have forgotten how to evolve.
So we now depend on technology to save our asses from the deep fryer.
To live until 70 years old, who can imagine.
Especially for some of us whose bodies are already beginning to break down.
If we had lived a shorter life, perhaps some of us would be happier.
Perhaps we would evolved a stomach ready to deal with the oily, salty, fatty fried foods we have now.
That our bodies can deal with the abundance and not kill ourselves in the process.
That our lungs would be able to process more dangerous green house gases to help save the environment.
That we would evolve a tail to use the mouse while our fingers do the typing. Or to swing from construction building to construction building. (Credit to Dilbert strip)
But as it is, we live for just too damn long and I'm afraid the next generation is going to be even worse of than we are.
As those who study economics know, the law of supply and demand run the usage of natural resources and as demand continues raging forward, there is a need to hold back the supply before it all goes to hell.