Isn’t there a better Investment?
Toronto, Ontario
The block next to our temple on Avenue rd. just southbound has anchored at least two posh clinics for plastic surgery. I noticed in passing by that one of the buildings called, “Elements”, now has a smart looking stone Hindu godess (likely Bhumi) or, Mother Earth set in front of it. She stands there holding a flower. She seems grounded, content and committed to perpetual youthfulness.
The elements of nature will always be around and I’m afraid that in due course the sun, rain, wind, snow and ice will do their number on the gracious statue just as they will do to our own bodies. We will wither and dwindle.
There are a lot of bucks that are pumped into altering body parts, firming up, stretching skin, cutting and replacing. Most people don’t take pride in wrinkles, sagging arms and breasts, protruding bellies no more than a brunette or a blonde’s hair turns silver. Since sex is played up in people’s lives so much there is a compulsion to do something about aging. But evading it isn’t necessarily going to build character.
When leaves drop in the fall it is a sign of awakening to the reality of a period of sobriety of the season ahead. When aging shows itself it can be taken as an indication to prepare for the afterlife. When will we focus on the spirit?
As I press ahead leaving the earthly goddess behind me I come upon another anti-aging clinic two more blocks away. I just have to ask again, “shouldn’t there be a wiser way to spend time and money and invest at least a small portion in our spiritual life?” Spirit matters! It won’t quit on us.
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