The older I get, the more I realize that the basic things we believe in and live by do not change. The world keeps moving faster and faster. We need to run and work harder just to keep up. We get sidetracked by many new ways to use our time. Technology is moving so fast that before you can learn all the features on your cell phone, it is obsolete.

We communicate faster, more extensively, and exchange a great deal more information. The country and people that we used to think of as being on the other side the world now are our next-door neighbors. CNN reports the latest news on the wars and the fight against terrorism to the world before the generals commanding the troops know about it. Facebook and the Internet allow every person to broadcast his thoughts with minimum censorship to a vast population.

China has emerged from the dark ages to become one of the leading economic powers in the world. Labor costs there are getting so high that the country is outsourcing its manufacturing jobs to other developing countries.

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