Just this past week I was anglin’ on
a saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin:
“Early to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
So what ever happened to healthy, wealthy and wise being
sought after like some sort of ultimate prize?
It seems that lately these virtues are cries that
so many people hold as Evil in their eyes.
If you’re healthy, there’s a crowd that’s heard whining and
ascribing your good health to something genetic
while their own habits of sedentry and over-dining have
led them to a condition that’s truly pathetic.
When it comes to wealth the assessment’s even worse; your
frugality and good choices are reviled as a Curse.
And when you try to pass along any of that Wisdom you’re
heard as the purveyor of yet another conundrum.
So instead of health we race toward illness and morbidity and
in place of wealth we get more lack and want.
In lieu of wisdom we’ve accrued ignorance and stupidity. Now
these New “virtues” are all that’s left to vaunt.