Is that what life has become? One comes into the world with sanity (for most), and the fight throughout one’s life is to try and retain and maintain that semblance of cognitive equilibrium. We tend to think, in modernity, that there are certain “basic rights” which apply to all human beings — a minimum level of subsistence; that one should be allowed a place to live, some food to eat, etc. A short review of history, however — even on a superficial level — readily and easily reveals that the greater lot of humanity suffered tremendously for centuries untold; that most were either in the peasant or serf class, and the daily struggle just to obtain food for survival constituted the primary focus for most. Once a system of “middle class” standards were invented, where some leisure time allowed for engagements beyond mere subsistence living, hobbies and pastimes involving entertainment, reading, pleasurable distractions and thoughts involving preludes to abstractions became more and more available to a greater number of people. To a point where, in modernity, in current times and circumstances, it is less the physical health which most are concerned with, but rather, the cognitive unhealthiness in a stress-filled society. Maintenance of sanity has become the mainstay of modern living; focus upon one’s mental health, of greater necessity. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who have struggled and recognized the progressive deterioration of one’s mental health — of...
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