To the editor:

I wonder. Is it just me? Does anyone else sense that experiencing life has gone from a slow, dripping faucet to a raging river flood?

There are people living because they don't have time to die, and there are people dying because they don't have time to live.

It's as if someone has taken the remote control of life and pushed the fast-forward button.

I wonder. Is it just me? Have bad things just suddenly got out of hand? The traffic is bad. Customer service is bad. Crime is bad. Food is bad. Credit is bad. The delivery service is ... oh, well.

Just remember the words of Shalom Aleichem: "No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you."

As a final note, don't ask me who Shalom Aleichem is. Things are so bad right now I don't have time to find out.

RON FARROW

Cape Girardeau