AFFLUENCEThese days: the main issue I see is Affluence.
Even recently, in a ST report on food/health and how affluence has changed all that. When once, ppl would eat out at the hawker stalls and that being a treat, today it is simply not the case, eating out at the hawker stalls is daily fare. No wonder our health is negatively impacted, what with all the fats/oils/salt etc.
But much more than physical health, how is physical wealth impacting on spiritual health? Big time, me thinketh. We end up being imprisoned in your own wealth. I read a book that says that today's fear is not that we lack but that we lose. I guess Singaporeans were one-up on this, sadly. Yes, we have so much yet it is this that we most fear losing that we hoard more and more. Interestingly, I note that neither poverty or provision can supply the critically needed attitude - contentment.
Can contentment be achieved in times of affluence? Surely, but there is a heavy price to pay. One that is not measured in wealth. But perhaps in reputation and a distancing from those around us. Yes, pple will stare/glare/detest at our seeming hypocrisy when we become unfettered by the NEED and THIRST for more.
But then again, aren't we set apart? | 
