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12:30 am |
I don't cook. I don't have time. I work too much. For what purpose? I honestly couldn't tell you.
I don't exercise. I don't have time. Yet I live a mile from a train station that could take me to work and give me some exercise. I drive instead. Everywhere.
I don't read. I don't have time. Although I watch TV. And I cannot tell you two days later what I watched. Is it really so interesting to take up 5 hours of each day in my life?
I don't recycle. Yep.. that time thing again. You gotta separate and wash the food off the plastics, ya know. But, I'm supposedly a member of the Green party. That's what it says on paper, at least.
I believe I'm a have, rather than a have-not. Well, sometimes. I live alone--in my two bedroom town home complete with garage. Is there a Consumer party? That seems to be where my real loyalties lie. It seems fairly easy to become a have-not in this gotta-have-now party. So I work even more. Go GNP!
It was so easy to criticize our leaders when I was a have-not. I said, "If I were a have, I would put it to good use and not let things go to pot like these guys do." Really? That's what I said about gaining weight, too.
Yesterday I left my town home to go grab something to eat down at Jack-in-the-Box or Quiznos. I couldn't decide. It was 90 degrees outside and it reminded me of when I was in the Philippines last summer. Man, that was a hot and humid place. I remembered seeing the families together outside in the heat: the father mending the fence made of scrap pieces of scavenged wood, a mother nursing a baby in her arms, and the chicken-chasing kids who raised their heads long enough to smile and wave at me with a loud "Hey, Joe!"
Then I thought about the corrupt Filipino government that keeps that country in such impoverished conditions. I thought about how when leaders do a lousy job they are usually dethroned somehow: civil uprising, economic takeover, direct war, or whatever. It's inevitable that the have, whoever the have might be, becomes the have-not (or be-not). I pondered this. Yes, I pondered this--just before I turned on the air-conditioning in my huge sedan and merged in with the rest of the traffic.
- Cypher of Dimension 12
"Why didn't I take the red pill?"
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