MORNING JOE STAN: Does Your LifeGuard Walk on Water?

(THREE-MINUTE VIEWING) — Did you know that most whales die by drowning? If that sounds counter-intuitive since, as everybody with a functioning brain knows, those magnificent creatures literally live in the ocean, then you are absolutely right.

But, as Joe Stan points out in the following 3:00 video, whales lack the ability to draw oxygen out of the water in which they swim. They must break the surface of the water in order to get access to life-giving oxygen.

We humans are very much like whales in the sense that we have to break through the distractions, pains, false hopes, pain, depression, anger, and so much else in oder to reach the source of our life.

Thoreau famously put it like this, saying most of us live lives of “quiet desperation.” Similarly, the English philosopher David Hume declared that the vast majority of us live lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

Both Thoreau and Hume were right, at least as far as they went, but there is so much more to the story that they didn’t know but which you can. You aren’t here on this Earth in this time and this place by mere chance. Think about it:

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