Funny how perfectly timed the Word is even when you open it at random to read for a few minutes...I guess just because I am random doesn't mean that God is.

If mechanization came to India hundreds of millions would be out of a job. This I figured out as I was taking the clothes out of the washer to hang them on the line. As I was doing this I watched the lady on the roof of the house behind mine beating her boss's laundry on a cement block to clean it. At first I wondered why her boss who can afford SO much won't buy their servant a washing machine to make her life easier. I mean HELLO! Then I realized why. Life WOULD be easier for her work wise...because she would be out of a job. THAT is why manual labor will always exist in the state it is in in this country...one more mouth fed. That is why the man built the HUGE and seemingly ridiculously massive palace with an extravagant maze when the people were dying from lack of food and money because he wanted a way to provide for their needs by giving them work. Not that I am saying that conditions could not be improved around here, because I am not saying that AT ALL, but sometimes I realize that my way of fixing something really could cause greater detriment. People would rather have a job instead of no job. If people did their own cleaning then all those jobs would be lost. If people used a machine to dig that ditch then all those people would be out of a job. If people did their own ironing people would be out of a job. If people drove themselves people would be out of a job. IF IF IF IF...this society.

I am taking a train into the mountains tomorrow for the weekend!! Wooooo whoooo! I am excited! I need to relax a little and enjoy some un-spoilt nature.

I should go before night falls. A visiting doctor told me that in her 3 week visit at the hospital here there were 7 cases of Cobra bites. They are nocturnal and as I was walking through the high un-cut grass here the other night after dark I was imagining one of them being disturbed by my foot step! Ugh!