Been thinking lately about the saying "You reap what you you sow". Still true, of course, but sometimes it doesn't get through so much to us non-farmer types.
I was wondering what some modern equivalents might be.
Maybe "A moment on the lips, forever on the hips."
Maybe what the car mechanic says, "Pay me now or pay me later."
In the computer world: "Garbage in, garbage out".
Or the variations around that saying, "Lay down with dogs, rise up with fleas."
A lot of the time it seems it would be very useful to remember You reap Only what you sow - if you reap nothing, you sow nothing.
Procrastination, laziness, doing the easy thing instead of the best thing - it's easy to ooze into the easy. I remember Robert Bork's Slouching to Gomorrah.
And then think about what we will reap if we keep sowing the glorification of violence, the self absorption of what is falsely called love, the surrendering of personal freedom to the bread and circuses of nanny government.
What will we reap?