The drive to "Keep up with the Jones" over recent decades has been a major cause of financial stress and worry around the globe. People seem to think that they need to define themselves by what they possess. They also feel they need to keep up with their friends, family, neighbors etc with accumulation of material goods. In order to do this, people are working longer hours, wives have to work instead of being home with their children and in general couples / families live with a large...

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I'm really giving, Netflix a workout, last night it was a new kind of western called, 6 GUNS. There has always been a lot of shooting and killing in westerns but by comparison very sterile and clean, usually one bullet would do it and the victim would shed no blood. Now it's a different world. In the first five minutes of 6 Guns a family was destroyed. A gang of five broke into a home where a man, his wife and two small sons were having supper. They instantly started beating up on the man while...

On Sunday, I had to get my appendix removed. I remember that I nearly collapsed by the time that my dad called the hospital. The pain was pretty sharp and I couldn't eat anything. When they took me to the hospital, they put me to sleep and they removed my appendix. When I woke up, I saw my parents and siblings - they visited me every day at the hospital. On one of the days my paternal grandparents came to visit me.

My parents brought my Nintendo 3DS for me to play while I was in there,...