Originally Posted by
Bear
I realize the OP mentioned his post was to been in a joking manner. They also made jokes about the space shuttle Challenger.
Fact is, I actually do believe, some would rather cut off their click finger than to scroll over there and click "thanks", and will go to great measures to avoid it. Although I find that rather comical at times, I also believe at the end of the day, what's most important was what you gave, and not just what you got.
There was a university study done not too long ago which documented the differences in obituaries over the last hundred years. They found a hundred years ago the obits mostly spoke of a mans character, the things he had contributed and the deeds he had done, where today they were found to mostly speak of a mans wealth and possessions.
There were also some worthy mentions, in another big book, of an extremely thankless generation, being near the end of our thankless road, and sometimes I wonder just how far away that day can actually be.
Although it is highly visible here, this certainly isn't restricted to SMF or the scrapping community, but goes the world over, and altho it's led mostly by the "developed" countries, if you look at the countries where there is little, and what little they had, has been taken away, such as the recent typhoon victims in the Philippines, and other places where both natural or manmade disasters have ravaged their lives and their world. They'd be thankful for the crumbs that fell from our plates, and that's even more reason to be thankful for what we have, and that we live in such a land as what we do, and not so worried about what's the score, or how much more can i get, before we reach the end of that road.
I truly do believe one day the more important question will be, not how much did you get, but instead, how much did you give.
RIGHT on the money, KewlBeans!!!! The below has been in the "signature line" of my email, for many years...
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
"You make a living by what you GET. You make a life by what you GIVE."
I pray everyday that I can somehow live up to that! Be it by sharing something here, making someone laugh, stopping to help someone who is out of gas, etc...there is not a day go by, that is some way, somewhere, some how, we don't have an opportunity to give!
and I just gave my2...
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