Security !!

ode to sam: To be truly challenging, a voyage like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea-"cruising it is called."Voyaging" belongs to seamen and to wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. "I've always wanted to sail to the south seas but can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security" and in the worship of security we fling our lives 'neath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in the dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it the tomb is sealed. Where then lies the answer?.....IN CHOICE: which shall it be; bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?