A nice, simple life

I think that people really do not need so much in order to have a good life. Having friends and relatives to keep them through rough times are pretty much what they need to have a satisfying life. I know that man's desires makes him miserable but this also makes him strive to achieve more and to become better and has been responsible for the many advancements that we see in the world today.

It is when the basic needs are not met that we begin to see the seeds of upheavals. The great advancements in music, literature, architecture and art that characterized the reign of the French Monarchs obscured the fact that the great majority of the population had a misrable life. When told that the masses had no bread to eat, the Emptress Marie Antoinette was reputed to have said: "Let them eat cake". This signifies how far the perception of the royalty and aristocracy was from the reality of ordinary mortals.

Even today, this same disparity in how the world is viewed has allowed good intentions to fall by the wayside in the light of the desire to keep advancing forward. It is common knowledge that the productive capacity is there to feed the world's population yet, that is nothing more than a statistic on a page. Reality has not brought that page to the mouths of those that need it the most.

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For peace of mind. try meditation.