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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Business in the Middle Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Sometimes people live half their lives<br>To realize that they had never been living at all, <br>		Only catering to the expectations of others, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And for what? —<br>		Many of them begin to wonder.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When there was sunshine in their life, <br>They tended to ignore the light spilling over the dawn, <br>	Focusing instead on the dusk of their intuition, <br>	Teaching their eyes to callous<br>On illumination, <br>	So the world in darkness is more visible.<br>		Blindness comes to all that seek it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Some of them sit in an endless continuum, <br>Recycling the same modicums of waste<br>They've perpetuated, <br>			Fueled by a steady stream<br>		Of Arabica bean coffee—<br>	In cups the size of two stomachs—<br>		And instantaneously prepared<br>			Yuppie fast-food—<br>The kind that promotes how it supplies ‘the third world, '<br>Offering the people they oppress <br>					(in order to receive what they make) <br>A	 sufficient cache<br> Of obviously inferior product.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Their thoughts rattle like coins in a slot machine, <br>Eventually slurring in the casino landscape that surrounds them.<br>When that vertigo appears—<br>		The kind that suggests to them that they are doing nothing, <br>		But feeding into the innocuous process<br>		Of working for no reason other than to ensure their job exists—<br>	They work harder, <br>	Or sit down harder<br>	To stare at the spreadsheets harder<br>	To gaze at the numbers harder<br>	To see the white space behind them harder<br>	Wishing life weren't any harder.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">That's when they finally know, <br>	When they finally realize, <br>That they've spent all of their time stockpiling money, <br>Hoarding their cash away, <br>		Building a tower of furniture, <br>			Of automobiles, <br>			Of internet opportunities, <br>			Of stomach ulcers, <br>			Of heart disease, <br>			Of chronic stress, <br>			Of inflamed immune systems, <br>			Of distant relationships, <br>			Of divorce, <br>			Of estranged children, <br>			Of nothing at all, <br>But statistics.<br>		What good is a life of statistics? <br>		What do the numbers really mean? —<br>They ask/<br>They inquire because they cannot find an answer.<br>There isn't an answer—<br>			Partially because they don't believe the one<br>			They've heard their entire lifetime.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=530526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So they quit their job and sell their businesses, <br>Try to look after their respiratory systems<br>With heart-healthy foods, <br>Go back to school to learn a meaningful career, <br>Get rid of that penthouse suite<br>Full of magazine-ordered apparel and furnishings—<br>		To feel emptier than before.<br>		At least, until they learn that satisfaction<br>Appears when one isn't averting a problem, <br>But acknowledging it.<br>		In middle age, <br>		The businessmen want<br>		To be gratified, <br>		Knowing greed<br>Won't accomplish them—<br>	Yet, that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to learn<br>	By unlearning.<br>			In middle age, <br>	The businessmen are as lost as when they began—<br>	Only now they see the labyrinth of compassion<br>	And human spirit for what it could be<br>	Rather than what it should be, <br>	And maybe someday…<br>			They'll see it for what it is.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a></strong></div>