Monday, November 12, 2007

bloated

No matter how rich you are you can only sit in one sofa at a time. You can only read one book at a time, and you can only watch one movie at a time. You can build houses all over the planet and stuff them to the gills with art work, furniture, and other fine items, but you can only be in one room at a time. You can heat and cool, illuminate and ventilate, but it will do you little good unless the light shines on you and the fan blows your hair. 

You can collect cars, boats, airplanes, and helicopters, but you can only drive one car, sail one boat, or fly one plane at any given moment. You can having enough swimming pools for a pod of blue whales but you can only swim in one at a time. You can collect so many toys you won't have enough hours in your life time to try them all at least once.

You can drink fancy waters from exotic bottles but tap water is likely of better quality. You can sip expensive wines from rare vintages, but distinguished experts may not be able to tell them apart from a $10 supermarket bottle in a blind tasting. You can drive your Ferrari but chances are your average speed won't exceed 30 mph. And the revving engine is likely to damage your hearing.

It should come as no surprise then, if your only friend in life is poor dog. Or a very rich dog for that matter.

But rejoice, there is one thing where you do excel. You are leaving a huge footprint of destruction. A scar on the planet that will be there for generations to come. A scar that you won't be able to offset by setting up foundations to help the poor and the needy or prevent and cure illnesses on continents far away. If you'd really wanted to save humanity or solve problems why not look around you? How about that $40 million mansion and all its useless gadgets?

Why not shed some excess weight? Losing weight is a much needed prescription for the world today.


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