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In his books, The Vanished Pomp of Yestrday, English Lord, Fredrick Hamilton, said, "Quite after of late there has welled up in me a craving to live in a stable, stagnant, society where values and ways have remained unchanged for generations, and no one is going anywhere." It looks as though Fredrick was tired of the rat-race.
    Years ago, working in a chemical plant in Texas, I worked with a fellow by the name of Warren Newberry. Warren was a country boy from Arkansas who had brought his family to the chemical industry of South East Texas, for a better life. One day when Warren and I were talking he said, "We're able to have more here-a mice house, with a mortgage of course, a mice car, also with payments; our kids have a good school, but all in all; it seems we were just as happy back in Arkansas. The kids had a horse to ride, they road the school bus to school-a more than adequate school. They had a creek to swim and fish in. "We had wonderful friends and neighbors who were always there if need be... we visited a lot. Too we seemed to have as much money at the end of the month as we do now. "Very often", Warren
lamented, "I wish I was back there, living far back up a road going nowhere, and the best clothes I had was a pair of good-feeling overalls. Life was slower then and somehow better; I didn't seem to have my nose to the grindstone all the time like now-running to keep up."
    Lord Fredrick Hamilton and Warren Newberry were saying basically the same thing. Frederick was an English diplomat-running here and there to this-that-and-the-other, doing whatever it is diplomats do. He was tired of running. Someone said: On observing British sailors on the waterfront, "These people have not spent their lives running; they have not been run over by life. "One wonders whether America could continue to exist if and when we stop running. There is an extremism in us: we either run or do not move at all."
    If you slow down, you'll get a move harmonious outcome.
                   
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