So I tend to think myself as someone who doesn't complain all that much and in a humble manner, this is true. But it's also true that the limiting nature of my humanity brings me to have some degree of an unsatisfiable desire. As a student I fight against assignments piling up on my daily planner. I may complain to friends about how I'm swamped with homework. I realized today the gross ingratitude of this. Imagine for a moment my friend being some one in a third world country living in abject poverty. Someone who barely has clothes on their backs let alone shoes on their feet. This malnourished someone who has to trek multiple miles each day barefoot just for a clean source of water. Each step meaning life or death for his/her family. One tiny cut on the foot stands the chance to kill knowing all too way the poor medical system.
I'm not sure how to change these sick inequalities. This is a problem for which I eagerly search a solution. However, I do know what I've got. I know I have way more than I need. I know that by either some random force or by destiny I was born an American. While I may be lower to middle class here in the US, I am one of the very privileged in the whole of the world community. Not only have I been educated, I've had the opportunity of a higher education. To complain about an assignment that's due or a shower that's not hot enough is ridiculous from a more universal perspective. We should be grateful of these things - of everything we've got.
If you're reading this, given your access to some technological device with internet access, you've probably have more than you need just like me. Lets use our resources for good instead of wasting them on complaints and insignificant garbage.
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