Friday, October 20, 2006

I've become political

It's a cliche I know, but we really don't know how good we've got it until you see a different culture. Sleep walking into a political argument with a fellow traveler, I have become intolerant of people who winge 'their lives are bad and they can't get out of bed to sort it'. People make radical claims that they're 'ill mentally' and need anti-depressants to fix the problem. Never is the problem taken on first hand, dealt with and sorted. Just to shy away, take days of work in the hope that 'things' will get better. It infuriates me to the point anger.
The British have become so reliant on a system that carries on giving free health and benefits that people in general think there is something wrong with them and therefore entitled to prescriptions.

Take this indigenous family for example. Everyday, cold or hot, ill or healthy, fit or unfit, young or old, disabled or abled, they go to work. Why? Not because they want to but because they have to. To live is the only goal, and they do it without complaint or hesitance. That is how I want to be. 100% in for living and not some kind of pathetic moocher.

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