Wednesday, March 3, 2010

13. Why are some people better off than others?


It's chance and choice. People are born into their lives through chance and by this I mean that they are born into the world in a specific condition. A baby can be born into a poor, average or well off family and it is not the decision of the baby to choose. But we have the other option, choice, to change our fate. Acting on how we can change ourselves to have a better life is possible and attainable. There are many stories to hear about riches to rags and how with hard earned money can go a long way into a brighter future for people. Those that are already born into a blessed lifestyle, have the upper hand, and can easily be better off than others because they do not have to work to hard to get what they want, granted that they already have the resources to get them.

With this, we can see that there is inequality. But since there is little we can do about it, we must be able to act on ourselves and decide what type of life we want to live. There people say that they are destined for something, or are cursed in the status of living they are in. But I don't believe that this is totally true, because a person can twist his or her own fate. We should not be hindered by what class we are because they can stop us from reaching our true potential.

We were shown pictures of different countries stricken by poverty and we can see that poverty is a universal issue. There exists poverty in all parts of the world, it may vary on the degrees on country may have but what really matters and sets a country is how the react and deal with poverty. In our country, we are always having efforts to help the poor communities. To see the inequality in poverty has given us as an example. on how the world is today.

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