Simple Living....thoughts, ramblings...whats important?

In all the time of man, we have only had modern electricity and integrated communications systems in the past century.  For all the rest of time, for heat, you needed fire, for food you needed to collect, for cleansing you needed the water nature provided.  If you wanted to send or receive information,  you sent a messenger.  Our current society has become so disconnected from this.

Water - open the tap.  Power - plug in.  Heat - set the thermostat.

Technology is a good thing.  It has made out lives easier.  But, isn't it so much more complicated?  I still don't understand what the main goals in life people have.  Most work as much as they can just to keep their head afloat with the huge mortgage and bills.  Taking time away from family, recreation, learning, and relaxation. You only get one chance at this folks, there are no "do overs" like when we were kids and messed something up.  When you are 80 years old , what will you look back on and wish were top priorities that you never "got to" ?  This is what I'm trying to figure out now, when young and I still have the most scarce and valuable resource we have, time.




Dave Matthews "Seek Up"


Sometimes I feel like I'm falling
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again...

Oh, life it seems,
this trouble between what we see and what we do
Well, I'm going to change my ways
just to please you, or appease you
Oh, look at this crowd, six million proud,
Willing to punch it away
Right, wrong, weak, strong,
Ashes to ashes, all fall down
Oh, look around about this round-about,
This merry-go-round and around
Well, if at all Gods gaze upon us falls
It's with a mischevious grin,
look at him

Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead
Soon we will all find our lives swept away

Oh, look at me and my fancy car and my bank account
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down to my grave,
God knows, I'd save and save
Man, take a look again,
take a look again
All the things I have collected
Well, in the end it all will pile up so tall
to one big nothing
One big nothing at all

Forget about the reason and the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead
Soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
You seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up any monster for him to fight your wars for you
When he find his way to you the devil's not going
Ha, ha Ha, ha

Say, oh say
Late at night with TV's hungry child his belly swells
when for the price of a coke or a smoke
I could keep alive those hungry eyes,
Man, take a look again, take a look again, take a look again,
Everyday things change
But basically you and me stay the same

Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead
And soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
You seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up any monster for him to fight your wars for you
But when he find his way to you the devil's not going
Ha, ha Ha, ha

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust