Common Sense Is Missing And I Can’t Find It
June 1, 2011 by admin
Filed under Farming, Natures Choice News
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I am always learning and studying something new. Whether it’s about how best to work with nature when growing things, how best to build our egg mobile or how to arrange my office so that I can be efficient. I am always trying to make something better.
It is 4:58 am and I couldn’t sleep. Something was on my mind that I couldn’t put my finger on. Then it occurred to me: It hit me like a bolt of lightning. People make decisions in some of the most haphazard ways that cost them dearly most of the time. For example suppose one of our unmarried sons got tired of hearing his mother asking when he was going to get married and settle down with a family. One day he decides he has had it… he is going to shut her up.
Its Friday night and he goes down to local singles club or where ever young kids go today. He walks in and scans the room for a few minutes. He is not looking for the prettiest little thing or the one who looks successful with nice clothes on and carries herself with self assurance. Nope… he is looking for the most desperate girl in the place. Yea… why not?
He spots her sitting in the corner where it is kind of dark hoping no one will ask her to dance. Now suppose he goes over and sits down and begins a conversation. After about 15 minutes he pops the question and asks her to marry him. Then he spends the next 15 minutes convincing her he is sincere. Well after she and her friends laugh him out of the place he moves on to the next watering hole on Saturday night to find a desperate girl who will say yes.
While this may sound unrealistic I have found over the years that most people go through life in a semi unconscious state looking for that instant gratification our society demands. They don’t focus their attention on the important decisions that will have an impact on their future. Partner… our divorce rate is at 50% and climbing so this is not to much of a stretch. Most people don’t put much thought into important decisions that will effect them long term.
If our son were to pick a bride in the obscure manner I described above they would enter into a marriage that everyone would know is going to end in disaster. People pick businesses and sink their hard earned money into them with out much more thought than our son picking his bride. I know this because most small businesses fail in the first 5 years.
The reason for this sleepless night…I was wondering why people had to be convinced the food we raise is healthy for them and they should buy it. Why don’t they just see the common sense in front of them and buy all they can afford.
I realize people make decisions like my son picking his desperate bride… nearly everyday. For example when people go to the grocery store to pick the pick the food they eat for the week … stand at the front of the store and look at what is in the basket when they get to the check out line. And they do it with reckless abandon as if their bodies will take the abuse and they will never have to pay a price later on from eating processed food.
It is now 5:09 am and I am glad I figured that out. Now I can rest and don’t have to worry about convincing anyone about the food we grow. It is much easier to find the few people who know about real food and they understand the stuff in the store is just the semblance of food. Our First Lady Mrs. Obama got into hot water when they first moved into the White House with her organic garden.
Not only is the divorce rate high, the business failure rate higher but the health problems plaguing this country… is off the charts. And I wonder why people don’t have common sense about eating healthy.
How silly of me. ….Good Night.
