The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Repent!

It's the end I tell you! Well, maybe not exactly the end, maybe the end of an era, I doubt it's the end of days. I was looking around yesterday about that phrase, and it seems everyone has a take on it. Being human and having everything end, we just seem to need to put an expiration date on everything.

Let's take a look at some of my ending dates:

6/11 the expiration date on the first credit card I pulled out of my wallet this morning.

5/11/09 last day of classes this semester

5/26/1997 the last day I was an official smoker

but there doesn't seem to be exact dates for other stuff, like the demise of civilizations.

Let's take a look at a microcosm, the street where I work.

Here it is in 1957, year o' my birth:



and five minutes ago:




Now I ask you when exactly was the expiration date on this place?

I assure you if someone had known they'd have sought to extend it.

Yesterday oil prices went down another 5%

Gas went up 6%

AGAIN!

When do we put a stop to this? WHen do we say enough? When do we stand up and say:
No more!
You've screwed us enough! You've taken and taken and we not only cannot, we will not give anymore. We truly have no more to give.

Is your income going up exponentially? Does the massive increase in your income compensate for the massive increases in your expenditures to meet your daily needs?

I have three jobs. Well, ok, five, but we don't count the free one, nor the one that's not paying its own way right now, so make it three.

I'm single and a senior citizen by all accounts. Unless you know lots of 102 year old men. How long can I be expected to keep up such a pace before I just fall over?

Enough I say!

I'm not interested in who's to blame. I am only interested in making it stop.