Appreciate the NOW!

Post date: Jun 19, 2014 6:14:41 AM

Hey there, privileged white westerners, here's something to think about: next time you're depressed/frustrated because your internet is slow...or because you aint got enough money to go out to the pub this week (or whatever you like doing), think about the fact that there are people, AS I type this (and as you read it), that live on a dollar a day and starve to death. There are people that are disabled on wheelchairs, paraplegics! People with terminal illnesses; children whose entire families have been blown away by a bomb from some war that was ONLY started in order to make some bankers and military industrial types even richer...12 yo girls that are forced to become prostitutes to feed their families...people that get violently raped/murdered by serial killers...and on and on...

I'm not saying to NOT have standards and aim high in life and to constantly strive for improvement. But, while you are doing this, please try to also APPRECIATE what you have in the NOW...because the "now" is the only time there really is...