Hi,
This is something that I wrote in my diary just over a year ago.. Life has changed a lot in the last year, but I read this and found that my opinion on this particular subject remains unchanged. So here it is. From ink to the keyboard.
Growing up there are no shades of gray. Black and white, right or wrong, truth or a lie. Out of the 7 sins, there are a few that children have, and those which stay throughout their life. Jealousy, selfishness and covetousness are ingrained in the human psyche. Kindness is a virtue which has to be taught and developed, I didn't have a great deal of it because I wasn't shown a great deal of it.
What we are taught is what we learn and we are taught the wrong things in life. Look out for yourself, above all else. Save your soul at the expense of another, both eyes for an eye, and break the jaw for a tooth. I find it surprising that people always want a free ride for as long as possible but take offense when the free ride is at their expense. The fundamental problem that goes unseen is that if you participate and win the rat race you'll still be a rat. It wasn't called a lion's race, lion's don't race to save their lives, they just turn around and whoop ass!
Choice is a privilege of the rich. I stay in a place surrounded by those less fortunate than I. A world riddled with poverty, relative ignorance and reality. Everybody's world has reality in it, but the reason why I state it so vehemently is because their life has very little potential for dreams.
I see people around me trying to figure out what they want to do, positively unhinged at the thought of what it is they like to do. But these people near my house, they don't suffer from any such hallucinations. Their anxieties are more real than just a figment of meandering imagination.
Now there are a few reasons behind this, and it's time to analyze that. The importance of education is highlighted here, because it gives you nightmares. In today's world, there are so many choices which can be made, so many career options, all of which can be realistically pursued and turned into life sustaining activities. Now, a person who isn't educated, simply doesn't know all of these options and therefore doesn't carry the insane burden as far as just choices go.
Picture an average well-to-do family, when they have a child, would shower every imaginable toy within their grasp on their child. The result is that the child grows up getting a lot of things that give it pleasure without any real reason other than the affection of a parent. One major feature of humans is then triggered: greed/ The child wants more, if it sees a toy or object it doesn't have, it covets that object and why?? Simply because it doesn't have it. Now, if the parent obliges, then the cycle continues, but most parents have limit, not to their affection but to the depth of their pockets, and that's when the greed turns intosomething in the range of moodiness and tantrums. Now, that doesn't mean that kids who don't get any toys don't cry or throw tantrums, I mean they're kids, it's in their CV to be thus.
But I have seen these kids, parent have no money, barely keeping a roof over their head, yet they are constantly playing and smiling. No tantrums, no acting like a sourpuss, and they have toys too.. What amazing toy is this that always keeps a kid smiling?? A mere pebble, that's it.. nothing major. One pebble gets them going for hours, or maybe a heap of sand, and the joy on their faces is something to behold.
Coming back to the very top, choice is a privilege of the rich, and here's why. If you're poor, then you can't spend your time thinking about what you could do to fulfill yourself and your potential as a person. You simply want to survive, to make enough money to ensure that there will be a meal the next day. No choices there, do the first job that comes your way, then the second and if you're lucky the third as well.
Lack of a proper education often means that they jobs they get are one of the daily wage variety, so the more the merrier. They have problems, they use the confines of their homes only to sleep in at night. The entire day is spent outside. Even the children, the reason why they stay outside is simply because their house is not as comfortable as what is outside. Even during the summer afternoons when the temperature is reaching up to 46' C. That itself is testament to their poverty. Their entire house is painted using the leftover paint from when my room was being painted.
But the bustle and chatter that categorizes their day is akin to the happiest families you'll know. I think because in their eyes, this is the best they can do, and that is something very commendable. How many of us can look at our lives and know that we are living upto our full potential? Very few, in fact that is the constant complaint of the youth of today. The fact that they shall not work hard enough in that direction, but shall blame it on all and sundry is something that never ceases to amaze me. If I can't do something then it is strictly my fault, maybe just on one level, maybe on multiple levels.
That's all I had written, so that's all that there is here, not going to try and complete this train of thought.
Take care
Surjo
This is something that I wrote in my diary just over a year ago.. Life has changed a lot in the last year, but I read this and found that my opinion on this particular subject remains unchanged. So here it is. From ink to the keyboard.Growing up there are no shades of gray. Black and white, right or wrong, truth or a lie. Out of the 7 sins, there are a few that children have, and those which stay throughout their life. Jealousy, selfishness and covetousness are ingrained in the human psyche. Kindness is a virtue which has to be taught and developed, I didn't have a great deal of it because I wasn't shown a great deal of it.
What we are taught is what we learn and we are taught the wrong things in life. Look out for yourself, above all else. Save your soul at the expense of another, both eyes for an eye, and break the jaw for a tooth. I find it surprising that people always want a free ride for as long as possible but take offense when the free ride is at their expense. The fundamental problem that goes unseen is that if you participate and win the rat race you'll still be a rat. It wasn't called a lion's race, lion's don't race to save their lives, they just turn around and whoop ass!
Choice is a privilege of the rich. I stay in a place surrounded by those less fortunate than I. A world riddled with poverty, relative ignorance and reality. Everybody's world has reality in it, but the reason why I state it so vehemently is because their life has very little potential for dreams.
I see people around me trying to figure out what they want to do, positively unhinged at the thought of what it is they like to do. But these people near my house, they don't suffer from any such hallucinations. Their anxieties are more real than just a figment of meandering imagination.
Now there are a few reasons behind this, and it's time to analyze that. The importance of education is highlighted here, because it gives you nightmares. In today's world, there are so many choices which can be made, so many career options, all of which can be realistically pursued and turned into life sustaining activities. Now, a person who isn't educated, simply doesn't know all of these options and therefore doesn't carry the insane burden as far as just choices go.
Picture an average well-to-do family, when they have a child, would shower every imaginable toy within their grasp on their child. The result is that the child grows up getting a lot of things that give it pleasure without any real reason other than the affection of a parent. One major feature of humans is then triggered: greed/ The child wants more, if it sees a toy or object it doesn't have, it covets that object and why?? Simply because it doesn't have it. Now, if the parent obliges, then the cycle continues, but most parents have limit, not to their affection but to the depth of their pockets, and that's when the greed turns intosomething in the range of moodiness and tantrums. Now, that doesn't mean that kids who don't get any toys don't cry or throw tantrums, I mean they're kids, it's in their CV to be thus.
But I have seen these kids, parent have no money, barely keeping a roof over their head, yet they are constantly playing and smiling. No tantrums, no acting like a sourpuss, and they have toys too.. What amazing toy is this that always keeps a kid smiling?? A mere pebble, that's it.. nothing major. One pebble gets them going for hours, or maybe a heap of sand, and the joy on their faces is something to behold.
Coming back to the very top, choice is a privilege of the rich, and here's why. If you're poor, then you can't spend your time thinking about what you could do to fulfill yourself and your potential as a person. You simply want to survive, to make enough money to ensure that there will be a meal the next day. No choices there, do the first job that comes your way, then the second and if you're lucky the third as well.
Lack of a proper education often means that they jobs they get are one of the daily wage variety, so the more the merrier. They have problems, they use the confines of their homes only to sleep in at night. The entire day is spent outside. Even the children, the reason why they stay outside is simply because their house is not as comfortable as what is outside. Even during the summer afternoons when the temperature is reaching up to 46' C. That itself is testament to their poverty. Their entire house is painted using the leftover paint from when my room was being painted.
But the bustle and chatter that categorizes their day is akin to the happiest families you'll know. I think because in their eyes, this is the best they can do, and that is something very commendable. How many of us can look at our lives and know that we are living upto our full potential? Very few, in fact that is the constant complaint of the youth of today. The fact that they shall not work hard enough in that direction, but shall blame it on all and sundry is something that never ceases to amaze me. If I can't do something then it is strictly my fault, maybe just on one level, maybe on multiple levels.
That's all I had written, so that's all that there is here, not going to try and complete this train of thought.
Take care
Surjo
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