Slow Down

Anyone notice how fast life goes past us. Before you know it, it will all be over. I have had a few years with a lot of death in my family. I have lost my aunt and grandmother on my fathers side of the family. Also my best childhood friend Doug. Do I have regrets you bet I do. Like the fact me and Doug didn’t really talk anymore for about the last 10 years. But just few weeks before he died in a car crash, I tried to get together with him. But we where both busy. Do you know to this day I can’t tell you what I was busy doing. I only know one thing it was not as important an seeing him. The problem I see in the western world is things that should matter don’t really anymore. The things that were important to my father and his father don’t seem to be important to me or my brother right now. All that matters these days is money, bigger and better stuff at any cost. Parents are spending less and less time with there children. Working at a high school you can see the negative affects everyday. I remember went my grandmother and I would have long talks about life now and how life use to be. I really enjoyed every conversation we had. I remember her always talking about how happier people back then where. When families where able to pay bills , feed and cloth there families everything was good. Back there everyone know then neighbor, and families spent more time together. Now a days there is less of a feeling of community, people don’t know a lot of there neighbors. I just wonder where our world is going, when large companies can target children with unhealthy food and sugar water(a.k.a pop). Companies make money off selling cigarettes, even though it is a proven fact that smoking can lead to death. Even our government when I think of the 3 most addictive things that are legal tobacco, alcohol and gambling. They control and make a lot of money on all three. Money seems to be the only thing that matters in today’s world, and sometimes at the cost of our health and well being.