Does this mean the countdown has begun?

Here in Burlington, VT there is a food co-op and a whole bunch of supermarkets.  People go in and out each day spending vast amounts of the money that they just sat around 8 hours in front of a computer to be given.  They also use this given money to purcahse other things to fill the home they have and must pay for with money not given but lended so that they must always work to pay the debt off.  Then they get two weeks vacation.  This is good.  This is the life we want, the life we have created, the one we say that there isn't any other way.  That its "normal" to want this and be a part of it, and crazy, outsider, leftist, etc to not.  We like to routenly justify our cooperation in a system that inherently destroys and kills, whether here in North America or abroad by saying we buy organic, we support local systems, or maybe just eat Stonyfield yogurt (now sold at Walmart). 

90% of the world participates in an organized religion.  90% of the grain goes to feed caged animals so that we can kill them.  80% of the wealth is in the hands of the top few, etc etc etc.  To me, it often seems that as a mass, we do some stupid things (see above).  We are all spokes in community, which are spokes in larger cycles and all of this is part of the big cycle.  I was given great advice recenlty from someone who doesnt think i listen to his advice, though I'm not sure he would want me to use it in the way that I ultimialty will use it.  He told me that the longer you put something of, the less likely you are to do it.  Simple, but profoundly true.  The longer any of us puts off "living", of living our dreams, of failing, of seeking adventure, of being soveriegn, of being filled with all that is good and all that is bad, the more likely that you'll end up behind a computer your whole life so that you can collect social security and play shuffle board in the sun (which doesnt sound that bad). 

To make a winding incoherent rant come to some kind of point, i am offering a challenge.  That we address our routines, our habits, our dreams,  to see how they support our ability to feel alive and love life, and those that don't.  And then using this knowledge, live.  "Genlty, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me".  This won't happen over night, or a week, or a year, it might take a whole life to start living.  But the sooner we start, the better chance we won't find that it slipped away becuase we never acted in the first place.

Crazy that i didn't even mention biking once right?  Not today.  What about living off the excess of some of the people mentioned above?