The lonely world we live in

This article shocked the living daylights out of me.

She was 40 years old, and not one of her brother or sisters even bothered to find out where she was when she went missing for 2 years. They could've contacted the Metropolitan Housing Trust to find out where she was. They never even filed a 'missing' report. It seems she had bought Christmas presents for someone near to her, someone who'd known where she lived. But to discard a person in this manner, is even worse than jailing an innocent person.

40 years and living in solitude. Despite the advances in technology - mainly the ubiquitous cell phone, GPS, motion sensors, webcams, and may more obscure techologies in the offing, the fact remains that humans are the worst threat to humans. Forget globalisation, forget communism, forget Bush Jr.'s war(s), we have become adept at ignoring and hating people to such an extent that was never possible. Will we ever have kids who will remain kids? Kids who don't ask adults whether that guy is gay for wearing a pink tie? People who value life from an emotional standpoint rather than a purely physical one? Or has it boiled down to a matter of economics, which thwarts compassion in the face, as compassion cannot be valued? Does everything have to be valued in order to be appreciated?

Or is it because we have become smarter, we cannot indulge in the simple pleasures of life? We drive ourselves to exclusive resorts and exclusive tickets and exclusive showpieces, because we have to live THE life, kingsize maybe? Because credit cards make it easier to pile debt upon debt so that we can afford something we couldn't afford in the first place? Ironic as it may seem, we don't give a damn about anyone, yet subconsciously wish everyone thought the opposite about us?

We have lost our morals, we have lost our bearings. We're trying to keep up with a world thats turning faster than we do, Einsteins theory of relativity notwithstanding.
As Linkin Park's "Points of Authority" goes...
"You can't win the race! The pace is too fast! You just won't last!"
Yes, you'll never last. And even if you do, taking all the time in the world.... surprise, surprise, deaths right behind you.