My Generation's Paradox

The paradox of my generation is that we construct buildings to touch the clouds, yet we can't keep in touch with our family.

We have larger and wider highways, but they're filled with shorter tempers and narrower viewpoints. 

We have more self-proclaimed experts, yet the world has never seen so many problems.

We have the biggest houses for the smallest families, we have a society of pure convenience yet we can never find the time.

We spend money we don't have on things we don't need and enjoy our purchased items less than ever before.

Everyone has a degree, nobody has any answers. We have so many facts, but no common sense. Medicine for everything, but we charge so much no one can afford the care they deserve.

We drive and eat like we're always in a rush, we spend most of our time stressed out about things that don't matter, stay up too late and are always too tired; while we should be relaxing, laughing, hugging, reading, and spending more time with more people who matter more than anything else.

We treat time as if it is a commodity of the utmost importance, yet we never take the time to truly honour what little time we have.

We are so quick to hate, and so long to love. 

We have so many possessions, but so few values.

We talk without thinking and ignore without listening.

We teach our youth how to make a living, but not a life. We are alive for so much longer than ever before, but truly live for so few years.

We clean up our air but pollute our souls, we can get to the bottom of the ocean, but not the bottom of our own prejudice.

Everybody rushes, but nobody waits.

We have kids with cell phones, computers, and tablets, but not imaginations.

We have the ability to feed the world, but lack the dedication it requires.

We wanted a higher income so we sold our morals to get it.

We know so much, but understand so little.

We have the easiest means of communication the world has ever seen, yet we are incapable of meaningful connection. We back away from face-to-face conversations and solve all our important issues through electronic communication.

We have more quantity but less quality.

We grow taller but have shorter character, we have elevated profits and superficial relationships.

It is a time of worldwide revolutions but domestic oppression.

We have an abundance of food for rich people to waste while poor people starve to death.

We have an out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality; we can throw away anything we want, and we often do, including our own morals and values.

We have households with two incomes but no parent figures, the fanciest houses with the most broken homes.

We have "Health Maintenance Organizations" that do everything except help people maintain their health; they spend their resources telling sick people which treatments they aren't allowed to have.

We've created medicines to help us have sex, lose weight, be happy, grow hair; then we condemn the pill-popping drug addicts that we're responsible for creating in the first place.

We live in a time where we care more about what is in the store window than we do about the homeless person sitting next to it; we have laser surgery for sharper vision but less perspective than ever before.

We live in a time where we have to work longer hours in order to support children we never see.

It's a time of medical breakthroughs and government cutbacks.

It's a time where we have enough religion to make us hate one another, but not enough faith to let us love one another.

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