A friend of mine sent me the email below...
Civilization in 2017- this is priceless!... WELCOME to 2017
� Our Phones - Wireless
� Cooking - Fireless
� Cars - Keyless
� Food - Fatless
� Tires -Tubeless
� Dress - Sleeveless
� Youth - Jobless
� Leaders - Shameless
� Relationships - Meaningless
� Attitudes - Careless
� Babies - Fatherless
� Feelings - Heartless
� Education - Valueless
� Children – Mannerless
We are-SPEECHLESS,
Government-is CLUELESS,
And our Politicians-are WORTHLESS!
And, this stuff makes my blood boil. Not much makes me angry, but when I get an email like this from someone I know and care about, it literally makes me want to SCREAM.
So instead of SCREAMING - I am embracing the IS, which is that many intelligent people smile and forward these types of emails, and my WANT which is to create greater awareness of the DAMAGE and DISHARMONY that these types of emails create... and hoping that you will choose to be a louder voice for HARMONY.
The email starts with some really cool aspects of the advance in technology... phones, cooking, food, tires...
And then shifts...
Youth... JOBLESS... A gross generalization and untrue. The economy is strong, the population is aging and the country desperately needs more intelligent young people in the workforce. Yes, the unemployment is higher with the younger demographics but there are a TON of great opportunities for those who want to work hard.
Leaders... SHAMELESS... True a few are... and so very many are more aware and more committed to the real concept of leadership - and working so very hard to embrace it and apply it in their organizations.
Relationships... MEANINGLESS... Grossly untrue. I think the difficulty in marriage these days is because we all have a greater expectation for meaning than generations gone by... we demand more of each other - while treating each others on a more level playing field... The youth of today wants meaning in their companies and in more of what they do...
Attitudes... CARELESS... NOT TRUE... Just dealing with new conflicts. Are we more careless than 150 years ago during slave times, 100 years ago before women could vote, 50 years ago? We actually care TOO MUCH and the political correctness and caring of the time is potentially beyond reasonable.
Feellings... HEARTLESS! BS!
Education... VALUELESS Oh really, than why does the entire world want to come to the US for college? Yes, the education system needs reform, but valueless is offensively ungrateful.
Children... MANNERLESS! Manners change with generations - we are all figuring it out.
We are SPEECHLESS.... actually there are more people talking about issues today than I have ever witnessed in my life.
Government is CLUELESS... the government continues to run the US, which is an extremely complex organization and entity with great results.
And Politicians are WORTHLESS... so many of them are trying to fight the right fight, and I would argue politicians are more valued today than ever as we need them to appropriately deal with our President who represents a real liability in many ways.
My question is less about any of the specific statements - but about the bigger picture. WHY WOULD ANYONE SHARE THIS as is? Why would anyone put out for all of the people they know and care about a MOMENT of DISHARMONY? SO that some of them will forward it again and share the inaccurate pain with others?
There is only ONE reason... because they DON'T UNDERSTAND the DIFFERENCE between harmony and disharmony, and the danger in being a catalyst, a promoter, and an amplifier of disharmony.
This country needs no more help spreading disharmony.
It needs all the help doing exactly the opposite.
No one voice will change the trajectory alone... but EVERY voice amplifies or decreases the volume of harmony or disharmony in each conversation.
Be a catalyst for harmony...
Help those we know understand the difference...
Gross generalizations speaking to the worst of our IS... WISHING they didn't exist... and promoting a sense of HOPELESSNESS... are like deliberately spreading cancer to the world around us. It is proliferating harmful lies...
Why would any intelligent human being do that?... IGNORANCE
"Who cares, it's just one email... Some of the stuff is kind of true..."
NONSENSE... It's fault, and EVERY email matters... because EVERY moment matters!
Maybe this email is a little obvious. Maybe you are thinking, "I'd never forward that." I believe you...
But, think harder...
What jokes, stories, emails, values, beliefs do you have that you proliferate that spread disharmony? We all do it. Most of the time its out of our own ignorance of not realizing that some of our behaviors or "messages" are full of "wishing"... to our colleagues, our friends, our kids, our spouses... Think hard... I bet you can find one.
DON'T ALLOW IT to happen without your deliberate voice of dissent.
Without your WANT pushing it in the opposite direction.
And, if at all possible drop those behaviors, change those messages, STOP those emails.
Because of people like you...
the world will NEVER BE HARMONY-LESS...
That's why I love you....
That's why the world needs you...
present and engaged...
for harmony,
in every moment!
Nestor