The More Things Change, the More They Repeat Themselves
Charles Dickens has summarized our times as succinctly, and as appropriately, as he did in his novel, A Tale of Two Cities a novel about the French Revolution of 1789:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us. . . ."
By extension, today more people have more money than ever before and there is more poverty than ever before.
There are more high school graduates than ever before, there are more dropouts. There is more education, there is more illiteracy.
There is more security, there is more uncertainty. There is more success than ever before, and more failure.
Even today, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
For better times in your life, increase your vocabulary input-output with more fascinating words; especially, those which come directly, or indirectly, from Latin and Greek sources.
It's a tragedy among many in the world that they don't know that they don't know; and the less they know, the more they think they know enough.
The Road Not Taken
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I;
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.