All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
When I was younger, my dad would ask me who “they” were when I referred to some undefined group of people and later we eventually came to the same conclusion. They is the same as them. We still laugh about it, but it’s true. We are all human, but we are all also born with unique characteristics that make us special for better and for worse, but it is up to us to decide which characteristics we choose to focus on. The question is, are we focusing on the right things? When we focus on the good both in us and in society, our chances of finding shared happiness increases. When we focus on the bad in ourselves and society, our chances of finding shared problems increases.
When you define yourself as depressed, you are defining yourself as someone without happiness instead of someone who can be happy. When you define yourself as oppressed, you are defining yourself as someone deprived of opportunity instead of someone with opportunity. Decide what makes you happy. Money is just money and by definition it is only worth the amount of value that people place on it. That’s basic economics. It is just a medium of exchange that can be used for selling and acquiring. What you choose to do or not do with or without money is up to you. Everybody wants to be happy. When we focus on ourselves being poor and them being rich, we’re segregating ourselves by money instead of humanity.
In a world that is defined by poor and rich, the focus is on the language of money instead of the language of people. You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be. There are happy and depressed people of all creeds, races and economic statuses. If you want to be liberated, you have to choose to be liberated. No person or amount of money can free you from yourself. Mental slavery is a figment of the imagination.
See you. Be you. Do more.
John Harris III
1.13.14
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| Park Si-Yeon |
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