I wake up 10 feet away from potable water. I go to work. I have a job. It is safe and it pays enough. I have lunch. I have never known hunger except by my own choice. I go home and my house has not been burned to the ground. My wife has not been raped and killed. My daughter has not been sold off to a bordello. My son has not been given drugs and an AK-47 and conscripted into some war lord’s army. I go to warm comfortable bed at night with a roof over my head. I pray to the God of my choice and am not persecuted for it.
Yup, when I compare myself to people who do not have what I have, I consider myself blessed.
True wealth should not be measured by how much you have. It should be measured by how much you don’t need.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 3 months ago
There isn’t a fine line between genius and insanity, it’s a big grey fuzzy one.
Macushlalondra 3 months ago
Some people don’t bother trying to hide it.
jmworacle 3 months ago
And the people who seem to have: “Their Stuff together” are in the worst shape.
Doug K 3 months ago
One way to make yourself feel better is to tell yourself that everyone is just as bad off as you are.
The Reader Premium Member 3 months ago
I know it’s around here… somewhere.
PraiseofFolly 3 months ago
“Out of sight, out of mind.” In other words, “Invisible idiots.”
dflak 3 months ago
I wake up 10 feet away from potable water. I go to work. I have a job. It is safe and it pays enough. I have lunch. I have never known hunger except by my own choice. I go home and my house has not been burned to the ground. My wife has not been raped and killed. My daughter has not been sold off to a bordello. My son has not been given drugs and an AK-47 and conscripted into some war lord’s army. I go to warm comfortable bed at night with a roof over my head. I pray to the God of my choice and am not persecuted for it.
Yup, when I compare myself to people who do not have what I have, I consider myself blessed.
True wealth should not be measured by how much you have. It should be measured by how much you don’t need.
ATGMer 3 months ago
Mindlessness should not be wasted on the trivial.
assrdood 3 months ago
And youth is wasted on the young.
I was FRAMED!!!!!! 3 months ago
Why hide it?
rockyridge1977 3 months ago
Help!!!!!
ChessPirate 3 months ago
Keep practicing, Aunty, you may eventually get it… ☺
Daltongang Premium Member 3 months ago
Aunty, you can’t lose something you never had.
CorkLock 3 months ago
Guess that’s why Aunty wears those baggy ugly clothes.
old_geek 3 months ago
And don’t make that other person your younger self….
cuzinron47 3 months ago
I tend to be worst by comparison.
stillfickled Premium Member 3 months ago
I lost my heart-and not in San Fran.
Ernest_CT 3 months ago
AMEN!