Individuality

The photo is one I took of tonight's sunset.









There is an old Bali Proverb which says: Only dead fish swim with the stream

Meaning: People who do not posess willpower and individuality
will simply follow the majority, doing what everyone else does, without thinking.

Each of us possesses individuality. We make choices of our own. But how many really just swim with the stream?

Sadly it seems, too many do.

Todays trend is to follow what everyone else does without really stopping to think.

Of course, these are just my ramblings but it does grieve me to see so many people eating junk food.

It annoys me when I see greedy money making Fast Food chain stores advertising on TV for people to buy their health destroying foods.

Many people go into enormous debt as they must have the biggest and best house with every mod con available.

This leaves the people in debt and the banks getting richer. The Bible states "Owe no man anything".

With the country around me withering and dying in the dry weather, I think of the times when crops were brilliant and the farmer made alot of money.

I also recall the same farmers wasting the money they had as though it was something to be plucked from trees. A new car, a new truck, a new header, an expensive holiday, expensive high cholesterol take away foods. And of course in some cases, a new house on the farm.

Money was spent as though it was going out of fashion. They followed the trend of other farmers and did not look at the big picture by placing away funds to help themselves in future dry days.

Today, they face one big dry and need Government assistance.

Dams are dry, rivers, lakes and streams are dry and day after day we are faced with a merciless sun beating down upon a helpless land.

Sheep and lambs are being sold at half their value and farmers despair over lost crops.

They can work 24 hours a day - and get nowhere. Water mismanagement has been rife.

But what bothers some most has been the mismanagement of money by the farmers when the going was good.

Farmer Soandso had an enormous return of thousands upon thousands of dollars, in some cases, millions. So did Farmer Joe. Farmer Joe spent alot of money on extravagances, and Farmer Soandso followed the trend. Both were dead fish swimming with the stream.

Individuality is as precious as water. Not gold - but water, for man can live in a house made of gold and precious jewels, but without water it is useless to him.

Often I wonder if man cannot live with individuality? And certainly if he cannot live by a simple key to being happy in life by owing no man anything.