The thing is, I think it's okay to occasionally want something you shouldn't, so long as wanting is all you do. Once you take or even moving beyond mere want into obsession is where people get into trouble.
You know, I think the word 'obsession' has come to be watered down in the past generation or so. You know what else has been watered down by overuse? The word 'love'. It no longer means what it once was. People say to their casual buds 'love ya' as we once only did to those we truly loved and adored.What has become of this world, do you think? Kids are so rarely taught the values we were raised with, that our culture used to be seeped in. Everything has been redefined to fit within a politically correct mold. We daren't offend anybody, and yet, in trying to offend no one, you end up offending most.
How this became a rant, I don't know. Maybe it's that all my synapses are sending short-circuit signals from lack of sleep (the great insomnia monster struck again last night).
But think about it. People used to be nicer. We used to have time for each other. Nowadays, a typical family of four is all together in the same place only when everyone is sleeping. Someone's always rushing off to something or another.
It's depressing.
I work with seniors. I am familiar with the manners and values they were taught to revere. I know that advances in technology have virtually wiped out many of those manners. So have things like feminism, corporations, terrorism...it's a terrifying world we live in. Makes me wonder why. We know that the wages of sin is death and that every soul is saved what believes on Jesus and speaks him into their heart.
But what about the rest of the world? Islam is a growing threat and problem; persecution of Christians is becoming a pandemic. What have we let our world come to?!
Getting down off my soapbox.
Sorry for that. It sort of happened without my full knowledge or consent.
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