Modern life is very demanding and it is not surprising that so many fall by the way side as they strive to achieve more and more. The human body and its brain box are of limited duration and are only meant to last for those four score years and ten.
However, advances in modern medicine and health regimes have extended this for many people, but this does not apply to those who insist on living at breakneck speed as though there is no tomorrow.
Sadly for them there might not be, as they burn up their resources which have been given to them. By filling every minute of every day with stressful situations they are imposing on themselves an early recall to the Almighty.
Our Father, who lives in Heaven, is well aware of the pressures of modern living, but He is also aware of the motivation that drives so many in this helter-skelter world of modern living at the top of the line.
So often it is not for the fact that their children are going hungry or that they do not have a pair of shoes and the parent feels that they must do all the work that they can get to put food on the table or clothes on their children. Many have a hard life and I am not talking about those poor souls here.
I am addressing those, often young people, who intend to make a mark for themselves by climbing further and higher than those about them and they are caught up in a race for which there is no ultimate prize.
They are greedy for the good things in life that they think that they want and they demand them at any price. Yes, I agree that is their choice, but I have to ask them if they realise that they are burning themselves out and that their bodies can only take the strain for a short time.
So solace and time out is always required and to overwork and underplay is no joke. These young people, of all ages, are setting themselves a target for ruin in terms of health and happiness, which cannot be bought in later life however much they earn.
Nobody can have everything! That is the way things are and if you try to get it all, you will be left in pain of body or mind or both. Is it really worth it to chase a rainbow for that pot of gold that may not be worth it when you get there?
Please think about those around you who suffer because you follow that impossible dream and who will have to pick up the pieces when you fall, as at some time you will, if you don't limit your exertions to fit the available resources that your mind and body can undertake.
Undertake your life and live as you want to, but don't make demands on others that are unfair because of your pursuit to find that gravy train. Remember that sooner or later you have a date with the undertaker.
Do you want that to be sooner or later? Life is for living in harmony and happiness and when you have enough, be satisfied and don't deprive yourself by demanding more and more and more