Canada has become a country of different colours.
Religion and cultures that are changing the face and future of Canada (if there is to be one) — only the individual God may know the answer?
As I floated around in my pool on an inner tube made long ago, I thought of my life back then before the fast-lane entered the scene. Back in time, one saying was “what’s your hurry?” now you hear “C’mon hurry up, have you got a piano strapped to you?”
In my opinion automation, technology and robots have placed life itself on a road leading to self-destruct. Chores and natural playtime for many children have been replaced by the many electronics — remotes and robots as the world stage changes almost faster than time itself.
Many changes are a pain such as a simple phone call where your time is not important to the recorded voice that directs you through many numbers and music or a foreign language mixed with broken English is not for people that appreciate every minute of their life.
Warranties on items costing thousands of dollars are now good for one lousy year, maybe because that junk was made in the fast-lane and not made to last?
I just told myself to hurry up “do you have a piano strapped to you a little voice asked?
Rapid transit if you’re lucky, get’s you to a place where you may have to wait.
Vehicle convoy’s containing potential road rage trapped in a rolling tin can gobbling up fuel surely puts another dent in the stress and pay a person earned that day. What’s called rush hour, but going nowhere is a daily nightmare for the working class and can only get worse with the turtle eventually passing all humans in their fast lane.
No the modern world of today is threatened like never before, has no brakes as it pushes faster — faster to build bigger bombs that put fear around the entire world.
Looking for a nonexistent expressway can be found 24/7 around the congested world at airports, border’s, ferries, hospitals, government agencies’ and the list go’s on and on.
Yes, the world appears to some people to be faster, quicker, smarter and some things I may agree, as I have to leave right now for something that can’t wait — a place called the bathroom.
Sorry, I just remembered we did have 19 cent King Burgers back in the 1950s -1960s which were tasty and fast.
As people get old and look back at how quickly life has passed, was it worth the hurry up let’s go as you face your last tomorrow in the fast lane of life on earth?
Anyway, agree or disagree with the above, you can only know and appreciate the given life in the slow lane if you did the walk and so many natural things growing up that cost not a dime!
Tom Isherwood
Olalla