Currently Listening Blood on the Tracks By Bob Dylan see related

A Hard Rain is Going to Fall

Its a typical morning like any other... I look out the window of my cubical to see the gray sky that greets me daily these days. As I put my Ipod on random and start to go through my e-mails a familiar song comes on... one that I haven't heard in some time, and as the well worded song plays through one ear (have to keep one open to hear the phone) I begin to think... where have I gone, but better yet... not where have I gone, where has the world I once knew gone. Peace was once the standard and now we live in a time where death is more an expectation, brought on by daily news of soldiers, civilians, etc... losing their lives to violence and hatred. Happiness was once present all around, and how materialistic our society is shown through. As times got harder fiscally, people got harder personally. Life is your value, yet people no longer saw their value as the sum of their character, rather the sum of their accounts. A mathematical equation to denote how much some has to offer, rather than the sum of experiences and knowledgable. Value being placed on the lowest cost, with little regard for unrealized costs that far outweigh any gain... look at the destruction of China's environment, yet they are one of the largest growing economies in the world (value misplaced once again). I had a conversation not too long ago with some friends where we reevaluated the true value of existence. It was the ability to better society as a whole, to be the best cog in the machine of mankind that one could be. Doing whatever service is necessary for its fellow man to best create a happy and cohesive existence. Where did this go wrong? What changed? We added a value. No longer were goods traded, rather there were numbers associated to them... people became greedy, lazy, and apathetic... people lost humanity, and if you look around at what has become of the world its sad to think how much promise we had, and still do. Unrealized promise, where people better each other for the sake of doing their part... the day that people took on the perception that personal gain was the sole motivation for every action was the day that humanity started its downward spiral. A professor once told me, that to understand people in order to sell to them you must understand that people will do what is in their own best interest. Its so true... and sadly I feed on that daily and live with that daily, as does everyone. Why is society shocked when companies take action to kill off thousands through known health issues, chemicals, and additives? Why would someone knowingly hurt another? Because it benefits them the most... So I ask you how do we stop this? How do we walk away from this stance and return to the idea that our purpose is to best serve everyone each day?