“Your Ticket to Survival”

November 11, 2008
Few of us who are reading this blog entry are probably living in the survival mode. Oh, we talk about our lack of finances but the truth of the matter is we probably have more than enough things to liquidate before we actually get into merely surviving. In fact, we are probably living in more comfort than any generation before us. Consider that the apartment or house we live in probably has an air conditioner and furnace. We have cable TV, cell phones and an internet link to the rest of the world. We probably have more than enough to eat in our refrigerator and if we didn’t feel like making something we’d order a pizza. Like I said there are few of us who are probably living in the survival mode.

However, there are many of us who have experienced a crisis in our life. Some of us have thought that they were going to die or possibly prayed that they would. There are those who are reading this article who will admit that they have had times that possessions, full cupboards or even having a large bank account wasn’t their number one thought. For all practical purposes they were living in a basic survival.

Unless you are from another planet you have experienced a time in life when finances were the furthest thing from your mind and the thought of gazing into one’s fridge or ordering a pizza is repugnant.

Welcome to the flu season.

As I write this article there are hordes of people across this nation learning to multitask in ways that has humbled even the mightiest. Put bluntly there is no dignified manner in which to experience attack on one’s digestive system. Once you are within its grasp social standing no longer matters, nor does prestige, pedigree, race, religion, gender, economic status or political party.

We can put humanity on the moon, we can develop instantaneous communication; we can build monuments to the sky all in the boast of our accomplishments. Yet, one small flu bug as uninvited as a common fly and all our social plans, all our world conquests and all our financial gains are of little comfort.

As the calendar tells us that winter is not far away and just as the leaves on the trees have changed color and fallen so too the flu bug will do to each of us.

Some day The Reaper will hand in his final report to Someone higher. Until then be forewarned – prepare thyself – get a flu shot before it’s too late...it's your ticket to survival.

* title taken from article by Tom Martin “Leadership isn’t a commodity It’s your ticket to Survival” on 10.23.08 for Advertising Age http://adage.com/smallagency/post?article_id=131967

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