Here’s a list of paradoxes we all are all living with today. (author unknown) Wow! Cited ten years ago! Did these ever foreshadow then what we’re living with today!
So, as we exit 2020 … things to think about as we enter the new year.
Good time to reset?

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. 

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. 

We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. 

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. 

We’ve added years to life, not life to years.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. 

We conquered outer space but not inner space. 

We’ve done larger things, but not better things. . . 

We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. 

We write more, but learn less.

We plan more, but accomplish less. 

We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. 

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. . . .

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce; fancier houses but broken.

It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

       “But what is being born?” you might ask?

Might it be that humanity is witnessing nothing less than the emergence of a consciousness that the world has never seen? 

It’s one that doesn’t simply assume that happiness automatically results from obtaining material success. Rather, it’s a consciousness that, first and foremost, asks essential questions such as:

      •    “Who am I?”

      •    “Why am I here?”

      •    “What is my life’s purpose?”

      •    “How can I live a fulfilling life?”

      •    “How can I make a meaningful contribution in my world?”

Hmmm … now I’ve got a headache.