17/01/2024
While most of us are grappling with the appropriate reply to "Happy New year" messages,the world is increasingly becoming a hell.
As we write down our New year's resolutions we face a world which none of us want to live in.
New Year’s resolutions are penny-ante prayers. You are this way, but you hope to be that way. You used to want this, but now you want that.hey are all about the 'you' not 'we'or us.
The assumption behind resolutions is that something must needs to be corrected and to improve.One vows to be better than one was the year before.The nature of resolutions,particularly for those of us north of 30, has to do not only with the New Year before us, but also with time already spent, or misspent. Every time the ball drops, the heart sinks. You are running out of time, and time is what we value most.
The historian-philosopher Lewis Mumford believed that the clock, not the steam engine, was the principal machine of the industrial age because time has a commanding relationship to the expenditure of human energy, and thus to any product itself.
From the start, the essence of industry has been that things run on time.Time touches everything in life, even love. Fundamental things apply.
There is always a melancholic desperation and urgency when we shout, “Happy New Year!” Will this new year, in fact, be any better than the last?We resolve that it will. We resolve to be fitter, healthier, cleverer, richer, more successful, more popular, more productive, better dressed, happier.
The trouble with all such self-oriented promises is that they deal in chicken feed.
When the world is reeling and bleeding as it is what does the world gain if you lose weight, or work out, or work harder, or quit drinking or smoking.?
It’s your personal choice, your life. Your little life. Meanwhile, the world — the whole tortured, self-destructive, polarized, endangered, extraordinary world — spins on.
Instead of planning our exercise routines, we focus our intentions on all tha
