सुविचार

THINK ABOUT IT !

PARADOX OF OUR TIMES

We’ve taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
We spend more, but have less;
We buy more, but enjoy less;
We’ve bigger houses, but smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgment;
More experts, but less solutions;
More medicines, but less wellness;
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values;
We talk too much, love seldom, and hate too;

• We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life;
  We’ve added years to life, but not life to years;
  We’ve been all the way to the moon, and back,
  But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour;
  We have conquered outer space, but not inner space;
  We’ve higher incomes, but lower morals;
  These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
  More leisure but less fun;
  More kinds of food, but less nutrition;
  These are days of two incomes, but more divorces;
  Of fancier houses, but broken homes;
  It is a time when there is much in the show windows;
  But nothing in the stock room;
  We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
  
  OM SAI RAM!
  Anju Sharma
  (Research Faculty)
  Sai International Centre for Human Values