Somtimes, I don't get why I do the things I do. This isn't one of those times. I know that the reason that I'm lazy and intend to get whatever it is that I want is because it's comfortable. This comfort has been provided for me my whole life (courtesy of my parents and being born in the US) to the point where I expect it... no, more than expect it- NEED it. Infact, I'd say I'm addicted to luxury. I'm pretty sure that a lot of Americans are the same way as me. We've led such comfortable lives that we expect it, then need it, and to feed that addiction we need to have power, and to get power we need to have wars, and to have wars we need to subject others to torture, to subject others to torture, we need to be heartless. So, in my mind-this addiction leads to heartlessness and destruction.
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that's an interesting train of logic....
i don't know if agree with you because some people that do live comfortable american lifestyles also spend a lot of time volunteering and giving back to the community and the less fortunate, so i don't think it necessarily turns everyone heartless, but a lot of people do take "the basics" for granted...
you never know how amazing running water is, for instance, until you have to use an outhouse in the country. i'm a russian immigrant and whenever we would visit my grandma, that was the toilet....there were also no showers, i just took baths in a large tub that my mom filled with water she had boiled on the stove. nowadays though, i get squeamish if i go two days without a shower. it's kind of sad.
--stacie
I know that not everyone becomes heartless. You're completely right. I do agree with you that people live comfortably and give back. (I try to be one of those people!) I don't know, I guess I tend to go to the extreme on some things. :
Blair-O
hehe, yeah, that's understandable, i tend to exaggerate a little bit on things that i'm passionate about also. =)
--stacie