That is how we live: One Crisis Before. Before what? That is the impending question; Before we go off the edge? Before the stability of the family breaks apart? Before someone goes “Postal”? Before…. Then we should ask the converse question: Is that how we should live? If the answer is a resounding, “No!” — then, why is it that we do not change? Is it because we feel so powerless as to submit to the impotence of our self-made circumstances? It is like Mr. Woodhouse, Emma’s aging father in Jane Austen’s novel, who reflects that “Life is like eating one bowl of gruel to the next” — of monotony, boredom, a life filled with stressful events, until that sudden turn of events occurs. How did we get here? Did we ever have a choice? It is like the saying — “We went a bridge too far…” And the consequences of going beyond the capacity to reinforce and secure the area? Cut off; isolated; unable to regroup. That is how most of us live in this modern life where leisure was promised and losses were promulgated. What we gained — greater mental stresses because everyone’s focus was turned inward — to the computer; to having the requisite daily focus and concentration for engagement of cognitive duties; of constantly being connected via Smart Phones, Email, the Internet, etc. Did evolution ever have the time to prepare for such a world? Or did it work upon the physical body, only, adapting to dangers once foreseen but now outdated? For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer...
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