Chosen

Few are chosen
The last are among us now
The first are but a distant memory
If even that
"Have their bones been found?"
Dust to dust...
Posterity a feeble memoir
Token respect for those about to be forgotten
Fleeting thoughts
For intention is not deed

My youngest daughter and I were having a conversation about Adam and Eve, I am not even sure how we got to that topic to be honest but they came up. I was asked if their bones were ever found and does anyone have them now. I explained that they were alive so long ago that they would be nothing but dust by now...so, no, nobody has them.

The thought occurred to me that not everyone believes in the Adam and Eve origin of man, not that I necessarily believe the classic biblical account as it is set out, but we started somewhere with someone being the first people on Earth no matter the belief.

The current removal of all things religious in schools and public life leads to the forgetting. Of course that does not stop everyone from enjoying the resulting statutory holiday periods. Unless those that do not believe in the Christian ideology choose to not observe these holidays and receive the typical monetary compensation I figure that perhaps they should reconsider complaining about the various respective representations in society.

But that is a soapbox that I will not mount today...end of mini-digression.

"Few are chosen" was actually just the topic of a stock market blog entry having to do with traders that get selected to trade for proprietary trading firms and the lack of any real successful traders among the throng. The words just seemed to jump out at me and suggest something altogether different and brought to my mind the conversation with my daughter.

Jeff.