Too Short to be Saved
As we get older time seems to go faster. Here it is January 2, but as most adults will attest it will soon be Christmas 2019.
I enjoy history. I enjoy vintage styles. There is a certain je ne sais quoi that comes with the different eras.
Life moved slower in earlier time periods. I would venture that change happened slower and those two things went together.
Before modern inventions life in the village and all that it entailed, moved at the same pace as it had for long ages.
In 1939 Britain went to war with Germany helping to end the Great Depression. Before the United States actually entered the War, we supplied aid in the form of ammunition and weapons and necessities to our allies. World War II ended in 1945.
I was born in the fifties, but both my grandparents and mother had suffered through the Depression. That time in history changed many things in our lives.
They had to learn to make do with what they had at hand. Some people are less caring about what others think about them, but our psyche changes by society's opinion to a degree.
I've read the phrase, 'Hustle while you wait', and the Depression increased that characteristic. My grandfather told of digging a cellar/basement for a quarter.
That was the generation that raised the 'Greatest Generation'. They weren't afraid of work, nor did they shirk their responsibility of providing for their families. At least the vast majority did what it took.
That's what made the Greatest Generation great. Research from that time frame becomes poignant when we realize what those people experienced. When they came back from the war they energetically picked up with their lives and made something of their future.
This title (too short to be saved) is somewhat misleading. The rest of the sentence reads, String too short to be saved.
It comes from this story of a reclusive (supposedly wise) old man who had become a hermit and perhaps a hoarder. After he died people came in to clean up things. Among the boxes of stuff they found one box labeled, String too short to be saved.
However, if we step back and look at history through a magnifying lens, in comparison our lives seem to come up like that string. Maybe not too short to be saved, but...
We have so much and so little at the same time. Life has changed so much because of our inventions. Inventions are a double edged sword, so to speak. All of them can be used for good or evil.
Sadly, most of them end up being used for evil more than for good. And most of them we never question once they have become part of our lives.
We need to throw away those short strings not put them in a box...
Ecclesiastes 7:27 "Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account; 28) which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29) Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
