I understand your point, and agree although one thing that is common to people with and without resources (financial for instance) is the power of choice and in choosing things that help create life in the ways a person wishes it to be, or to move it that way, is what I'm getting at in this post. Choosing the right paths.
The choice may be as simple as choosing, or working towards, the right attitude which can have huge benefits in a person's life.
Thanks for your insight, they are always interesting.
I like these thought provoking posts, so thanks for providing them. I would agree that everyone has the power of choice, but I think up to a point. Something that comes to mind and is very prevalent in the Philippines are young poor people getting pregnant and having children. Yes it is their choice to have unprotected sex [condoms and contraceptives cost money]. Yes it is their choice to have the child [abortion is still taboo in the Catholic Philippines]. But being young, impoverished, and lacking proper education, these happen a lot.
From this point, they barely have any choice left. The girl will stop going to school to take care of the child. Eventually the guy will find a minimum wage job, the girl will do odd jobs like washing laundry for others or working as a household helper. They will barely have any savings and have 4 children. Then the cycle continues.
For those that don't get pregnant early, they tend to work while still helping their parents and siblings. The oldest usually end up supporting everyone and help pay for the other's education. To be fair, these are the ones that end up with some choices down the road if they're lucky.
Choosing the right path is important and special. But sometimes, even that basic commodity is not available to others. Unless of course they go the 'selfish' route and leave everything behind and start new and focus on themselves.
There's always choice, always. That doesn't mean that any of the choices are good ones, sometimes they are all bad, but a human still has a choice, even if that choice is less than optimal. Anyway, this post, or any of the others I write like this, are designed to cover every situation, just to get people thinking. The choice I refer to here is more about a choice of attitude, even a young women with four kids has the ability to choose their attitude right?
You might like to read a book called , Man's search for meaning, by Viktor Frankl, you may find it interesting. In he talks about choice and considering he was a Jew interred in a Nazi death camp in World War Two, I'd say he knows something about making choices that may not be good ones.
I was talking more about their choices on what they can do with their life. But if you meant attitudes, then yeah, I agree. There is always a choice there. A lot of the less fortunate people in the Philippines tend to have a much happier disposition/attitude. Life might be difficult, but they are closer as a family, and are able to celebrate the little things.
After watching Schindler's list, I tend to avoid consuming any more information about the atrocities that happened to the Jews under the Nazis. I have read/watched some documentaries about how people that are tortured/mistreated are somehow able to adapt to their predicament. Some have an out of body experience, some were able to mute their emotions and pain, etc.
Yeah I get you, one can only watch so much of the same thing and that event has been observed from every angle for decades.
Weedy, seedy Needy V. Such a greasy cunt.
Nobody does needy quite like Needy-V!
Needy indeedy.
Ha!! That's splendid! 😀
I am sure it will dreadfully upset you, given your ever more apparently fragile nature but I'm not going to respond to you anymore primarily because I am concerned for your mental wellbeing.
Stay safe Viktor and be well.
Keep commenting Needy-V...so needy yes indeedy.