Return to the Genders

I rarely have a “writer’s block” problem. Mostly I have the need to “block out” problem. Block out the time and block out all the many subjects and information that crowd around and hit the clamor button for attention.

It’s a good problem to have. :)

I won’t put off to another week resuming the discussion on genders. Even though there is SO MUCH to say on SO MANY OTHER subjects! :)

This week’s topic is on the world’s, or at least the mortals who inhabit that world’s, or at least the American part of that world’s (There! Enough qualifiers? Lol) most precious commodity: time.

How many relationships are short-circuited because of that?

A friend of mine is really interested in a girl, and she seems really interested in him. Yet their work schedules (she works 2 jobs; he works one long one) are nearly polar opposite. He confided in me yesterday that he is so bummed out and tired of being alone when he doesn’t have to be and doesn’t want to be, that he will probably throw in the towel on the relationship. It’s worthless drivel to say, “find other jobs,” when the market isn’t serving up many, or sometimes any.

Time claims another budding relationship.

Sure, the couple should “find a way,” or “if it was really THE relationship, they would work it out.” Easy to say for those who have a relationship. Go back to being 25 and single, or even 35, 45, or 55, and try to carry out your words. Not nearly as remediable as heady words might make it sound.

Our society is over—overscheduled, overexploited, overdone. And that doesn’t even count another over—the overindulgence in so much, from games, to sports, to entertainment, to shopping, to virtual relationships, etc., all of which sap time and energy on things other than real relationships.

Native Americans have said for many hundreds of years that this culture values nearly everything else ahead of relationships.

It shows.

“What you spend your time, treasure, and talent on, there your heart will be,” goes the modern version of an old saying.

If that’s the case, our hearts are up the butt of materialism, slavishness, pettiness, shallowness, and ego. And that can’t be good—for relationships or society.