Reverse Living
Life is tough.
It takes a lot of your time, all your weekends,
and what do you get at the end of it? Death, a great reward.
I think that the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you live twenty years in an old-age home. You are kicked out when you are too young.
You get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work forty years until you're
young enough to enjoy your retirement. You go to college,
you party until you're ready for high school. You become a little kid, you play,
you have no responsibilities, you become a little boy or girl, you go back into the womb,
you spend your last nine months floating.
And you finish off as a gleam in someone's eye.
Holy One of Blessing, Who's Presence fills Creation. Guide us in our discussion, so that we may meet in harmony and wisdom. May our work be for our benefit, for the benefit of our community, and for the benefit of the world. Blessed is the Holy One Who hears our prayers.—AMEN.