A Reflection on Muddy Waters

If humanity was a pool of water, it seems to get muggier and muddier as time goes on:

• People are less transparent (and take active measures to conceal more)
• Ethically, our race seems to create more 'gray' areas than ever before
• Each generation loses some of the key principles that their parents have tried to impart on them

Today was particularly interesting to this regard, multiple independent mood swings took place over the most insignificant of business matters.  People should be ashamed when they look back at their day.

What's depressing is not the fact that they get uptight (though I have yet to hear a very good reason FOR it), but it's the reason that they get uptight.  People are losing it over not getting invited to everyone's party (even though they'd never go), jumping to shouting matches over being asked to add in minute details to their documentation, and worried about how they will report on small fragments of overtime (ie.a few minutes).  I MEAN REALLY PEOPLE! If this is worth getting upset about, wait until you find out that your son died in a car accident, or wait until you realize that you have a few months to live, or wait until you lose your job, credibility and all your wealth.

Wait until all the things that you take for granted are taken from you, then see how you feel.  It is in these moments that we define the ceiling of our value as human beings.

The hardest thing to do is stop and clean the water.  The challenge is that it requires us to get new water and get rid of the old water.

Good luck and best wishes to all those of you who maintain peace in their heart in the face of adversity.