OH MY GOD!!!!<\/p>\n
Only when we are no longer afraid
\nDo we begin to live.
\nDorothy Thompson<\/p>\n
It is always something\u2026and that something terrorizes us.\u00a0 In Britain, we are all petrified of spiders and the strongest among us get queasy when we look down from a high place. If we are planning suicide, we much prefer to hang ourselves or swallow poison.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t as scary.<\/p>\n
All of us can feel our blood pressure rise when we hear what is happening to the ozone layer even though not one of us have ever seen it or really know what it is.<\/p>\n
We were warned that greater exposure to ultra violet rays has caused a rise in melanomas to eat away our skin even as it blinds innocent fish and little bunnies.\u00a0 Every educated person worries that our deserts are expanding and we are going to dry out if we are not completely cooked by global warming or drowned by the melting glaciers first.\u00a0 Worse, the air has become so polluted that if anyone dares to take a deep breath these days, he will die. Now it is the Ebola Virus that is seeping in from Africa and will kill every one of us within moments.<\/p>\n
What next?<\/p>\n
I have lived through it all and I can testify that all of it is smoke and mirrors.\u00a0 My mother believed that the Russians created the Asian Flu epidemic and I believed she was the cause of all my cavities.\u00a0 My sister blamed my mother for making her so fat and my mother blamed my father when the car stalled.<\/p>\n
All of us are afraid that we won\u2019t have enough money to take care of ourselves until we die and now that we all live longer, we are stashing funds into retirement accounts, under mattresses and behind the furnace just in case we have the bad luck to live to be 110.<\/p>\n
The truth is that all the fuss about organic foods is spoiling dinner. I am sorry if the beef I eat was taken from viciously murdered cows and I feel terrible for the spinach soaked in nasty insecticides so it wouldn\u2019t look like green Swiss cheese when it arrived at the table. If am going to worry that the vegetables in my salad had an unhappy childhood or the cream I rub on my face is nothing but wax, I am not going to have time to go dancing.<\/p>\n
Hooray for caring about our environment.\u00a0 Hooray for doing our best to clean up the air and return to real food instead of the genetically modified, tasteless fakes the supermarkets give us.\u00a0 Hooray, too,\u00a0 for medical advances that protect us from epidemics.\u00a0 I believe in doing our best to do our best for ourselves now\u2026.and deal with disaster when it happens. If the coward dies 1000 deaths and the hero dies but one, I want to be a hero.<\/p>\n
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