Prosperity never lasts long

Jobs, jobs, jobs – how can we create more of them? That’s all you hear these days. We elect people to high office, supposedly for their demonstrated ability and brains. Yet all they seem able to do is wring their hands and wail: How do we make more jobs? Our benighted president sometimes seems to be the worst of the whole lot.

Not enough jobs? What can we expect when we multiply like rabbits and pursue our own selfish pleasure when times are good? Are we ever going to learn that periods of prosperity are of limited duration? Nothing good in this life ever lasts very long. By all means, let us always tend to the comfort and well-being of our families. But let us never do so with indifference to the rest of humanity.

Has not the time long since come for all of us to sit down together and take stock of our situation as creatures of excellence, intelligence and skill should, could and most surely would?

“Whatever has selfishness for its basis, competition for its right, and enjoyment as its goal, must die sooner or later.” (Swami Vevekamanda, World Parliament of Religions, 1893.)

Dennis P. Roberts

Spokane