There are a lot of things in short supply, many which have given the world pause as the shortage threatens our physical survival within the parameters of this tiny sphere we inhabit. The looming threat of scarcity of food, water, and other natural resources in the wake of a growing population, paints a pretty bleak picture.

Our problem is much more far-reaching.

The scarcity of which, environmentalists and scientists tremble in no way compares to the diminution of the few precious jewels, which define the essence of our humanity; empathy and compassion.

No time like the present has the need for such been so necessary, but yet in such short supply.

What are these jewels?

A jewel increases in value the more scarce it becomes.

If this is to be true then compassion and empathy have tipped the scales of valuation.

If empathy and compassion are so valuable to the existence of a civilization what has happened?

The world has parched its lips with libations, libations of insolence, callousness, and hatred. It has become drunk with indulgences, leaching every ounce of humanity.

The world has lost its sobriety, choosing  fevered dreams and satiation of pleasures rather than virtue.  A world rich in its imaginations, without spirit, drowning in its conceits, vapid, lost, and reprobate. A world of automatons, humans which no longer resemble their former selves for they have lost that which has most defined them, their humanity.

Where does that leave us?

Until there is a desire to change, it leaves us a future of destruction and devastation, of ever-increasing poverty, famine, violence, wars, hatred, and death.

A successful nation an its people bear the markers of empathy and compassion. Greatness begins from within and radiates forth. A sick and hurting world is a manifestation of a sick and hurting people. When we as individuals begin to realize we are the solution to the change we seek, then shall transformation bloom like a flower reaching it petals to the horizon. When people begin to desire the fruits of virtue, then will real change begin.

Want to change world, become a person of character and virtue.