I was thinking about how there are billions of people on earth. how the hell did i end up so well off. I mean if you are reading this you are most likly a lot luckyer than you think. i mean look at all of africa or china or other third world or underdeveloped countrys. i mean i live here in so. cal. and have a great time with life and eating as much food as i want, while other kids are dieing of starvation in africa. while others are trying to survive by fishing and farming while im playing BF2 and have a nice cold soda next to me. or even people who are born with disabilitys and are limited the rest of their life while i have no defects and am perfectly health. but i guess this is how the world goes, i guess im just lucky.
what do you guys think about this subject?
Alot of us are very luckly but we never look at what we have, only what we don't have
Alot of us are very luckly but we never look at what we have, only what we don't have
So true, how many people live in town with cultural treasures but that has never seen any of them, because, heh, they go to work everyday in front of it and well, it melts in the rest of the scene.
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«Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getötet.»
I think about it every now and then, especially when seeing people who have it a lot worse, but sometimes I unfortunately forget about it and get picky about food and stuff.
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Originally Posted by Emir Al-Aziz
evertime I try to think how lucky I am I remember also how unlucky I am.
Cheer up, inspired by this thread I just wrote a long list of why I'm lucky and why not, and although they were about equally long the good things were more important than the bad, perhaps you could try it too?
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Originally Posted by Nostradamouse
So true, how many people live in town with cultural treasures but that has never seen any of them, because, heh, they go to work everyday in front of it and well, it melts in the rest of the scene.
Hm, I should really visit the local cathedral from the late 1200s some day, never been there yet although I have lectures about one hundred meters away four days every week.
I think the whole issue on "lucky" and what constitutes it are subjective to the persons experience, and perception. When you have a suburbanite teenager in California slashing their wrists, or kids crying “oh me” anywhere else its fair to guess to them, it’s the worst ‘they’ can imagine. Many, many people have no basis for comparison to what really hard luck can be, or what unlucky truly is. A lot of people take every little thing for granted, and with a mind set that “anyone who matters, has this too”. This is a world where empathy is not a prerequisite for existence.
To an extent, emotional pain is all relative. While the starving may live in constant physical and emotional pain (or they may not), an adult's tax problem can seem just as severe as a possible monster under the bed to a child.
Libs (In America) need to quit bitching. Things are dang fantastic, comparitively, in America, why spend every waking hour complaining? I try not to take things for granted. I consider myself "lucky", I guess.
Libs (In America) need to quit bitching. Things are dang fantastic, comparitively, in America, why spend every waking hour complaining? I try not to take things for granted. I consider myself "lucky", I guess.
Shouldn't you try to improve what you feel needs improving, if you can? How is trying to change laws/policies on an issue taking something for granted?
Things are good, great, but why not still trying to progress.
I'd compare it to not conducting medical research, because things are better than they've ever been in that field.
Libs (In America) need to quit bitching. Things are dang fantastic, comparitively, in America, why spend every waking hour complaining? I try not to take things for granted. I consider myself "lucky", I guess.
It appears you have personal issues with america. Which have nothing to do with how lucky you are, or are not. Libs bitching and complaining everywhere? Where...? is that from some other post?
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