| A glass half-empty is discouraging, but not as | | | | How sad. |
| discouraging as how misled people can be when a | | | | It's disappointing to see emergency rooms filled with |
| glass half-full is perceived as brimming over the top. | | | | sick people who have no insurance, the choice being |
| War is discouraging, too, especially wars that seem | | | | between eating and medical help for a vast majority |
| to go on forever. It's as if the countries involved | | | | of them. And insurance companies that cherry pick |
| grow to believe that everything is dangerous and | | | | their clients and turn down the risky ones who are ill. |
| foreboding while the rest of the world goes on about | | | | Or drug companies that not only self-test and |
| business as usual and relatively unscathed. Some | | | | regulate their own drugs, but then knowingly release |
| countries seem to draw violence toward them, and | | | | questionable ones that harm people simply because |
| others don't. Why is this? | | | | the drug companies must keep their stockholders |
| It's discouraging to hear that children are starving in | | | | happy with a greedy bottom line. |
| poor countries not because of lack of donated food, | | | | It is a shame as well when HMOs cancel a patient's |
| but because of men that continue to fight for some | | | | health insurance because their sick child has hit some |
| kind of power even though the ones that win are | | | | kind of a glass ceiling and therefore their lives are no |
| usually short lived. The unkindness and lack of | | | | longer worth the money that the insurance company |
| compassion is amazing, and a reflection of how little | | | | has to put out, while Wall Street greedily insists that, |
| we have advanced as human beings. | | | | the regulators inflate everyone's lives with worthless |
| When we hear that the world is becoming a cesspool | | | | dollars so that the stock market remains happy and |
| of greenhouse gasses because of our voracious | | | | so that Wall Street's wealth is taxed little. And all the |
| appetite for carbon, and yet we continue to drive | | | | while, the working man and woman does the heavy |
| powerful, large vehicles for - status, power, and | | | | lifting. |
| because of insecurity - similar reasons that leaders in | | | | These things are all discouraging, but the most |
| Africa keep starving children from food. This has to | | | | discouraging thing in the world is; that nothing ever |
| be discouraging as well. | | | | changes regarding the greed, hatred and delusion of |
| And it is discouraging to see homeless veterans | | | | human beings - at least not until we are shocked |
| begging in the streets because a wealthy society has | | | | beyond belief. Then, and only then, is there a |
| no patience with so called non-achievers, yet these | | | | possibility of change. |
| veterans achieved enough to keep the wealthy safe. | | | | |