though you know you'll never win this nameless race;
If you've been residing in a high rise building, taller than everything around,
and touching the clouds, and you know your feet is off the ground;
If you've been missing the passing of seasons, the wonders that each brings,
though you keep the holidays and weekends;
If you've been constantly bothered by ailments that medicine can only relieve,
and not cure, and doctors can only advise;
If you've lost contact with your roots through the years of searching for fame,
wedging farther your connection, feeling like an a orphan;
If you've succeeded in your career, rising to the top to the awe and admiration
of your colleagues, yet deep inside is a feeling of emptiness;
If you've reached retirement after all the years of work and its responsibilities,
but trapped in a dull, prosaic life of boredom;
If you've lost your loved ones, alone you gather the pieces of a happy memories,
nostalgic they are the rest of your life;
If you've been a good and loving guardian to your own children and other children,
and they call you dad or lolo, and feeling being young again;
Get out of your confine, find a place in nature, live with her beauty and bounty,
her people and community, you may yet find the meaning of life. ~
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