Sunday, September 14, 2008
{ 1:06 AM }
Travis' Closer is playing and its drowning out the noise, the chords just soothing my skin.
It's the music that allows me to wander. I always felt very lucky growing up, of course the human self is never satisfied but looking back at my life from many angles, I am, in ways more than one, very blessed.
And I don't know if this is the curse that comes along with the blessing because I always find myself feeling guilty for the things I have and the things that a lot of others lack and I don't just mean materialistic things.
Here I am fighting for a 5 digit salary in my future, whereas the construction workers work with backs bent under the scorching sun. Your sometimes slow but otherwise hardworking maid has 5 mouths back home to feed and yet swallows her pride to kneel and scrub your floors. A little respect please.
Don't you just wish there were something that could be done? We don't have to change the whole world, that seems almost impossible, despite what the Adidas ads tell you. Just one at a time, one small thing at a time. Why does my heart break for them?
Work hard and as my boss tells me, sacrifices have to be made but why does theirs seem too much to bear.
We should be g
rateful, that is the underlying basis of it all.