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I shouldn’t complain so much. My life is good and I’m not really poor. By Swedish standards I kinda am but not compared to the poor people in the rest of the world. I’m just a spoiled western European woman who’ve always had it all. By having it all I mean a house to live in, food on my plate, clothes, running water, electricity plus all the modern things we don’t really need but take for granted. I shouldn’t complain so much and neither should you because if you’re reading this you have access to a computer and internet and with that obviously electricity which means you most likely also have it all.
So many people in the world live so much harder lives than you and me. So many doesn’t have a home of their own or food on their plates. We should think about that more often and feel lucky, because we are. I need to think about that more often.
Not only do I have the material things. I also have a loving family and the chance to get an education. I’m blessed. In so many ways.
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I feel the same except I live in a third world country and I think it’s harder because they’re just right outside the streets. Like I’m in my car and you see people begging all the time. I can’t absolutely take in everyone but I always have this dream once I am successful, I’ll be able to help them. It’s like I wish I’ll have someone station at every barangay *that’s like a district here in the Philippines* and take in all the homeless children and frigging find their parents. I blame their parents really because they are just children, they need to be educated. ARGH
I know what you mean. We used to live in a third world country, and I remain forever grateful that we were able to come back home and live in basic comfort.
Having said that, there are many things that we all take for granted that we don’t even think about. Myself included!
That was both inspiring and a guilt trip.
Its easy to take these things for granted when we don’t see what other people’s lives are like. Thanks for the wake up call.
Yeah.. we should consider ourselves lucky… People in Africa and some other country doesnt have any food to eat nor money to buy computers and stuff, while we? we have it all..
we have our own home, food and other stuff.. i pity the unfortunate ones.. before i hated to do charity but the past few days im into charity.. 
It’s true, we’re so lucky. I complain about my lack of money, but at least I have a roof over my head and I eat every day and I’m still able to enjoy luxuries like a computer and video games. Sometimes it takes a major wake-up call like the disaster in Haiti to put things into perspective and make us realize how lucky we are, but really we should never forget that and be grateful for it every day. It’s hard, though. Everyone takes things for granted sometimes.
I agree with you. I’m pretty poor here in America, but my life isn’t that bad, For the most part I’m pretty optimistic about it. I feel so bad for people who are homeless, and always feel fortunate. I know we are, we are the luck ones.
You’re very much so right. Sometimes we need to stop complaining and take a look at the bigger picture in our lives. We may not have everything we ever wanted, but we need to remember that someone out there is literally dying to get half of what we have.
Så sant, jag har tänkt på samma sak.
Det handlar ju om perspektiv. Har man inga “riktiga” problem så blir så klart dom små sakerna större. Är min buss försenad blir jag sur och gnäller över det, men egentligen ska jag ju vara glad att vi har bussar över huvud taget och att jag har råd att åka med dem. Och så kommer jag hem och ser på nyheterna eller läser en tidning och inser vilken sjuk tur jag hade som föddes i ett land utan krig, svält, jordbävningar och elände. Och då skäms man över att man gnällde på bussen…
Det var precis det där “come to the dark side…”-citatet jag tänkte på
Fast jag tror aldrig jag sett det på Helgon, mest bara på tröjor.
I know exactly what you mean. I always complain that I don’t have money, but it’s usually in response to going out to eat or buying new clothes. If I lived in a cheaper apartment, and got rid of my luxuries like the internet and phone I would have much more money. But I feel like my quality of life would be lower and I wouldn’t be as happy.
I completely agree with your way of thinking that’s why I try not to stress about money so much. We just all try to do what we can to survive and just be blessed that we have those opportunities because there are many out there who don’t even have those chances.
It sucks though that money has rule our lives a little that’s life for you.