To be in this world and not part of this world, is a very hard thing to accomplish, and yet, it is very possible. How does one do this, you might ask? The sages and holy people of all religious belief systems have already accomplished this. Instead of tuning into the media blitz we need to tune it out. Guess what, this world can really function without your input. Hard to imagine, one might say.
I personally have been living without paid television. Did you know that if you hook up an antennae and a converter box...you can see free television. There may only be a few stations out there; but you can get television. It became too costly for me to continue paying the high prices for cable television so I dropped out. I just get my internet service.
I am happy too because my youth years were so radically different from today's youth. We weren't bogged down with all these new state of the art devices. If we went to a dance, after school game, practice, a meeting with our friends...we walked. Mostly we were in groups; but our parents didn't drive us around like today's teenagers and our gasoline prices were about 18 cents a gallon then. Unheard of in this day and age..where our gasoline prices are almost reaching 5.00 a gallon; and parents are still driving the kids around. Mainly because our children go so much further than staying in town.
Life in the 21st Century is still changing and evolving; sometimes it feels like I have lost my comfort zone. My one big excuse is "I'm OLD." Well I really am...in March I will turn 69. Another milestone. How are you coping in these changing times?
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