{"id":30,"date":"2013-07-13T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=30"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:14:00","slug":"the-man-always-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"The Man, Always the Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wQFDbmpzQcY\/UeF814xtppI\/AAAAAAAARZU\/n9qPcPZC_Rs\/s1600\/el+Hombre+final.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wQFDbmpzQcY\/UeF814xtppI\/AAAAAAAARZU\/n9qPcPZC_Rs\/s1600\/el+Hombre+final.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: left;\"><b style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">By Lida Prypchan<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">A  man\u2019s lunch cannot be compared to a pigeon\u2019s lunch. &nbsp;Pigeons are part  of a nature that is dedicated to idleness. &nbsp;Gaze through the window and  you\u2019ll see how the pigeons fly without worry. &nbsp;While man has to work to  eat and is responsible for guarding a house, pigeons play all the time  or at least almost all the time, and also have a good nap in the morning  and whenever they find a warm place. &nbsp;Meanwhile, man leads a life that  is quite complicated. &nbsp;While the dog naps, man must run around on the  street or sit in an office in order to be able to buy his food and  maintain himself. &nbsp;A man\u2019s food is more complicated than that of a  pigeon, because it affects the work of thousands of people and has a  complicated system of cultivation, sale, transport, delivery and  preparation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">However,  humanity has its advantages: the pleasures of knowledge, conversation  and the joys of imagination. &nbsp;The unfortunate thing is that the issue of  feeding ourselves absorbs over 90% of our human activities. &nbsp;If men had  not complicated their lives so much with progress, and if getting food  was not so hard, man would have no reason to work so hard.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">At  some point we will be so civilized and the world will be so complicated  that getting food will be so difficult that we will feel tired before  we start, i.e., in our pursuit of food our craving for that food will  disappear.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">We  have not reached that moment yet. &nbsp;What happens now is that there are  many men who are obsessed with work and material possessions, and since  they have food, they will not rest until they have a fortune. &nbsp;But that  rest never arrives or if it does, it arrives when it is too late. &nbsp;Being  next to a person like this is the most distressing thing one can  imagine: they have haste, anxiety and restlessness in their skin, they  suffer severe mood swings, they switch from the greatest euphoria to the  darkest depressions. &nbsp;They work from Monday to Sunday. &nbsp;They build  their own tomb with their achievements. &nbsp;Other features of these people  are: forgetting to eat or eating little, taking tranquilizers to achieve  the stability they need so that they can divide themselves into four  and deal with their countless daily occupations. &nbsp;They also tend to  suffer from severe headaches, loss of sleep; they are unable to enjoy  themselves at all, because they are too busy to be able to concentrate  on things they consider unimportant. &nbsp;They cease to be children and, in  perhaps one or two years, they become elderly.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">In  other words, they forget to live. &nbsp;And when they at last achieve their  goal, they feel the void left by overwork in obtaining a fortune that  they cannot take with them when they die. &nbsp;By comparing the life of one  of these gentlemen with that of a fisherman, you can see how the  fisherman will have enjoyed the beauty of life a thousand times more  than the person devoted to the endless routine of work in order to  achieve their goal.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">They  will obtain what society calls success, but they will have missed  hearing the breeze on a mountain top or they will not know the pleasure  of sitting in a town square all afternoon, without worries, to see how  trees blend with the blue sky and how their branches cover the sun. &nbsp;Or  sitting on the seashore to see the waves come and go.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 1pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;\">Having one\u2019s eyes closed to the delights of resting is being dead in life.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; 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