LIFE. The word alone is overwhelming. It often seems like when one thing goes wrong, ten other things seem to follow close behind. I hear about people committing suicide and I wonder how they could ever do it. How bad must things be for someone to feel that the only option is to end their life? Even though I could never do it, on certain days I can relate. It feels like at any moment you could lose everything that you love, everything that means anything to you. And what is often at the center of it all?
MONEY. They say money isn't everything, but that's not entirely true. Money is the reason why people are dying every day...or atleast for lack of it. People starving from no food, no water, no nothing. People dying from ailments that could have easily been cured or altogether avoided if they had the money to receive proper medical care. But if you have no insurance, if you have no money you're left to fend for yourself. The whole thing makes me sick. People who say money isn't everything must have money or else they would understand how hard it is to survive without it. It breaks my heart to see the people I love, the people I care about suffering because they don't have the money to do the things they need to do in order to survive. And it's not about being lazy. I know so many people that work hard, day after day- breaking their backs, making the necessary sacrifices and doing whatever they need to in order to make the best possible life for themselves and their loved ones. Yet, what do they have to show for it? Nothing. Working paycheck to paycheck with nothing left over to save. And when there is money left over, it seems like life often throws something your way to eat it up like a hungry hungry hippo. It breaks my heart.
If only we lived in a world that was fair. A just world where people got what they deserved. A world where hardworking people were rewarded for their hard work. This is my first post so if you don't know me you may not realize that I'm normally an extremely optimistic person. I do my best to stay positive because in a world filled with negativity, someone needs to balance it out, right? But right now, I'm putting my optimism aside to address the reality of life. The reality that people don't always get what they deserve. The reality that some people are just born into money and take it for granted- drinking, smoking, or snorting it away. The reality that some people have so little, while others have to much. The scales of life are extremely off balance, but that's just the way it goes.
So what to do? How do you come to terms with life's realities? Because as easy as it would be to lay on the couch all day in your SpongeBob pajamas with a tub of Haagan Das watching Sleepless in Seattle, feeling sorry for yourself- that's not an option. You may not be able to control life and it's imbalances, but you can control that way you deal with it all. You have to think about wealth in a different way. I may not be rich, but I have an abundance of riches which can't be contained in a vault-in a wallet-in an old lady's saggy bra. The kind of riches that you CAN take with you. Sometimes you just need to take a step back in order to see what was really important- sometimes you just have to have FAITH, faith that everything will work out the way that they're meant to. Faith that each hiccup, each stumble was strategically placed there in order to teach us a lesson, in order for us to grow...In order for us to find ourselves, and the true meaning of HAPPINESS.
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