Too many times I think we over look things that are right there in front of us. We seek things that we never really want and for what purpose? Is it because we know that we can't have them or just to complicate our lives more than they already seem to be.
This can be said for many aspects of our lives from materialistic things that we think we have to have to the person that becomes the object of our desire. Has our world gone that wrong that we cannot appreciate what we aleady have and find contentment in that? A prime example of this is our divorce rate in America. Ask yourselves why this is so. Is it because we believe the grass is greener on the other side? Or is it because we are so disconnected with those that we are supposed to be closest too that we start to find another to fill that void in which we in many ways created ourselves. It may not have been intentional but nonetheless it becomes. I think that we look for something that is just instantaneous without wanting to put any effort into the long term goals.
The saddest part of all this is that we only realize these lessons the only way that seems to be left anymore - the hard way. Maybe instead of sex ed in schools there should education on relationships, morals, respect, self worth. Maybe just maybe our divorce rate would drop and the family could be something of the norm again.
