I wish, so much, that there was a way we could get around the financial restraints that are brought upon us. I won’t say in this day or age or anything like that, because I think this type of living in debt lifestyle has been around for a very long time. I just wonder sometimes how people can get so far out of their depth so quickly and often without real warning and there is nothing that can be done about it. Along with the simple pressure of enough, enough to eat, to live, to be healthy, there is also this added drive these days to be richer and richer.
At least in the western world.
In a lot of other parts of the world, you would find yourself, where had you been at home you might be wondering how long dinner will be, to looking at people and wondering what if anything they will have to eat. Maybe even when have they eaten last?
I think, as a society in general, we have started becoming way too wrapped up in our own financial burdens & wants, rather than dealing with our needs, that we have forgotten how much we really have. We worry about our income, whether we will have enough financial support when we need it, worried our mortgage might get foreclose don, or that we may get a bad credit rating. We need to as a whole figure out what we can do to relax some of the strain of this. Be it cutting down in our spending habits, or be it employers paying higher wages. I don’t know.
But I do know this. There are hungry and starving Men, Women & Children out there. There are people that do not have a roof over their heads and are not sure if they ever will again. Some of them won’t. Some will remain homeless their whole lives. A lot of people out there live in conditions we would consider uninhabitable. Places where a meal a day is great and 3 meals, unheard of.
I just think that although, yes, I now we all need money. I know, yes, that as much as i wish i could get rid of my Mortgage, Car repayments, Gas, Electricity, Insurance, Rates and the list goes on, I can’t. And so i will have to keep working towards keeping a roof over my head and food on the table. But I still hurt whenever i think that we have such a stupidly divided amount of wealth around our globe that there are way too many people on the poorer end of the scale, who cannot afford to even eat.
I am not telling you to go onto World Vision or Oxfam. Not at all in fact. What I am suggesting is that you make whatever efforts you can, especially if you are in a stable financial position, to help those people who need it.
I don’t care if it is chucking the homeless guy a tenner as you walk by, or sending thousands of dollars across to make a new orphanage. Whatever it is, try and help people, whether you can do a little or a lot, it will mean heaps more to them.