It’s not like I’ve ever hit rock bottom, so I’m not the most qualified person to talk about this. However, sometimes we have to experience other things in order to really appreciate what we have at our disposal. I’ll put it this way: If you’ve never been in a worse state than how you are now, you will NEVER appreciate what’s around you.
MOST of the time (save for formal moments and family reunions) we never give thanks for what we have at our dinner table, well, we’re used to it, so it will always be there. But, had you ever been in the situation where you’re hungry because you can’t even afford to buy a rotting tomato?
Said This, I’ve learned a lot about life and social scales recently.
I’ve always been a bit over medium class, So I’ve NEVER been in the need to go outside to do hard work because I have two parents who have always given me what I want (limited by what they can reach/afford, obviously) and an aunt and grandmother on who I have always counted. So, I have always been in good shape, which is why I could never understand the reason why poor people cry and yell so much about the economic situation. I could never understand any of it, well I have always been fine, and so I’m like “This is still the same”…
- So, you don’t really appreciate whatever it is that you eat daily if you’ve never been in worse conditions, like eating sand or making a line in inespre to get food to your house.
- You Don’t appreciate your shoes if you’ve never been in the situation where they broke and you had to walk barefoot, or even worse, If you’ve never been cleaning them on the street.
- You don’t really appreciate your parent’s efforts to get you clothes if you’ve never seen someone in worse conditions without clothes.
You learn a lot about appreciation, worth and life in general once you even try to wear low class’ people shoes. You see, it’s not like you’ve ever had to do a line just to get free food from the government, and if you’ve seen those lines, TRUST ME, you can’t imagine what it’s like being in there.
Today, and in my “I don’t give a fuck” mood, there was a line of those I just told you about like 6 blocks away from my house, and even though I didn’t go to get anything (and didn’t), my stepmom dared me to get in the line just to see my reaction, So you already know what’s next… (yes, sin importar que dijeran “ay pero miren a fulanito! Tanto que priva!”).
It is almost incredible how now a day’s people struggle to get 10 pounds of rice, a bit of oil and some beans. People push, rush, and have to go through a lot of shit just to get that… Which is why after I got home I realized how thankful I am for having my room, my tv, my aero, AE, Kenneth Cole, etc clothes.. because even if we don’t see it right now… mire mi herman@, la situación ta durisima!!!
“How can you see them watch someone else?” Says Markus Schulz in his track “Without You Near”, I believe that it’s because we’re so used to do so that we’re self centered already. I believe it’s because we have already dumped what they look at. I believe it’s because we’re so spoiled that we think that our problems are big, and they are! But only in our world of bubbles (Imagination).
As I type, I am picking up colors for my room decoration, Listening to Markus Schulz, thanking Christina (I Love her so much!) for making me extend this note and thinking about my homework and the coffee I made and drank. Others, in this very moment are starting to grow, a baby is being born, someone has died, someone has finished it’s project, someone has been diagnosed with aids, someone else diagnosed with cancer, someone is suffering for wanting/not having what all of you who read this and I have in common, and yet you think your life sucks because you don’t have the car you want, or because your boyfriend cheated on you!…
I’m telling you, it’s when you hit rock bottom that you learn to appreciate, and even yet there are cases where your rock bottom might be someone’s glorious moment…
So, next time you get what you’ve been craving/wanting or next time you just simply do something for pleasure, be thankful. There are people in worse conditions than you trying to figure out the meaning of life, while your parents are avoiding that you ,by any means, get to be in that situation.
With not much else to say, I’m out to do homework.
Thanks For Reading
-Chris
I thank everyone who comes around to read my thoughs. Anywho, you might have left the blog confused with my last post and this was basically a post where I was mad. Here goes the explanation: You see, San Francisco de Macoris was on strike for three days, a complete riot; People died (INNOCENT PEOPLE) thanks to the police officers who were shooting people as shooting targets. That said, the strike made sense up to some point and up to some point I backed it up, again UP TO SOME POINT. What really pisses me off is that besides people dying on a riot we have people in the hospital with symptoms of asfixiation thanks to the bombs launched by the police and its “swat team”. One of these bombs was close to my house and I had to rush to the bathroom to get my face washed because the chemicals make your face itch and make you cry, not that being enough, I also have a two year old cousin and who we had to rush to the bathroom to get his face washed and placed in front of a fan because that is everything but healthy for any of us in the house.
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