The Easiness of the Way
Cake mixes.
Instant potatoes.
Instant pudding.
Fast food.
Instant credit.
Payday loans.
Instant cabinets.
Instant carpet (carpet tiles).
Instant rugs.
Getting out the ingredients, measuring them, mixing them, preparing the pans for baking, baking them, letting them cool, assembling them, etc.
Seasoning then boiling or slow oven roasting the tough cut of meat for 6-8 hours, adding vegetables and potatoes, and cooking for another hour.
Buying the lumber, measuring, cutting, remeasuring, recutting, hammering (swearing), sanding, staining, finish coat, finished product (shelves, bookcase, chest of drawers, etc.)
Growing the grain, harvesting, sifting chaff from grain, grinding into flour. Then harvest or trade with others for other ingredients.
Harvest a tree, cut into lumber at saw mill, measure and cut lengths needed, sand and rub wood to a high sheen.
Do we ever stop and look at the street (a car, a refrigerator, a computer) and think about the components, or deeper about the elements each component is made of and realize how easy we have it? Do we think of how much generational knowledge, expertise and learning has gone into creating the easiness of our lifestyles?
I believe with the easiness of the ways of our life, we become spoiled and demanding. If I can't have it my way (food, job, house, social situations), then I don't want it at all. What brats we've become.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have to admit that mom and dad were right. We've got it too d--- good. Instead of whining and complaining about how hard things are, we need to be looking closer at how right, good, and wonderful things are.
'nuff said.
Instant potatoes.
Instant pudding.
Fast food.
Instant credit.
Payday loans.
Instant cabinets.
Instant carpet (carpet tiles).
Instant rugs.
Getting out the ingredients, measuring them, mixing them, preparing the pans for baking, baking them, letting them cool, assembling them, etc.
Seasoning then boiling or slow oven roasting the tough cut of meat for 6-8 hours, adding vegetables and potatoes, and cooking for another hour.
Buying the lumber, measuring, cutting, remeasuring, recutting, hammering (swearing), sanding, staining, finish coat, finished product (shelves, bookcase, chest of drawers, etc.)
Growing the grain, harvesting, sifting chaff from grain, grinding into flour. Then harvest or trade with others for other ingredients.
Harvest a tree, cut into lumber at saw mill, measure and cut lengths needed, sand and rub wood to a high sheen.
Do we ever stop and look at the street (a car, a refrigerator, a computer) and think about the components, or deeper about the elements each component is made of and realize how easy we have it? Do we think of how much generational knowledge, expertise and learning has gone into creating the easiness of our lifestyles?
I believe with the easiness of the ways of our life, we become spoiled and demanding. If I can't have it my way (food, job, house, social situations), then I don't want it at all. What brats we've become.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have to admit that mom and dad were right. We've got it too d--- good. Instead of whining and complaining about how hard things are, we need to be looking closer at how right, good, and wonderful things are.
'nuff said.
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