Summer End

With only a couple of weeks until school starts again, I have to wonder where it went so quickly. Time seems to fly when you are having fun. Busy is more the word I think that fits into that phrase. Time seems to fly when you are busy. I look at my planner and I don't have a thing written down in it, so was I really that busy? Yes as a matter of fact I was -- I have never been a big planner user. Work is the main thing which takes up the most time it seems. Next comes sleeping, writing, reading and eating. Football practices, shopping, cleaning the house, cooking, tending to the animals. This list keeps getting bigger. You get the idea though. Everyone else is in the same boat I know. We are all busy all the time.

Remember when everything was closed on Sunday? Everyone went to church and visited friends or went for a Sunday drive. No one was in a hurry. No one worked. The only place where you could buy something was at a little corner store. That was how they stayed in business. Now with everything open almost 24/7, there are no little corner stores because everyone just heads to the big ones or the Mall. Whoever is not shopping is probably working so that everything can keep running. Everything was closed on holidays as well. Thanksgiving was a family day. Now you'll be lucky if half of your family is not working.

This is kind of depressing; sorry. I didn't think this article was going to go this way but now that it has, here is something to think about: We make everything happen in our society! That is a fact. How many of us are disgusted that grocery stores are open on Christmas day or that every year, more and more businesses are open 365 days. Now, how many of us who are feeling that way and feeling bad for the people who have to work in those places, how many of us have acually shopped or grabbed a coffee? I would think probably a lot more than would want to admit. If no one shopped on those days, it wouldn't be practical to be open--but we do so they are. This creates a vicious circle. We remain busy so we become busier. How far will our society go?