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i often romanticize the simple life, the lives of the poor.
i don’t get it.this is the problem with privilege:
even if i willingly give it up,
it was still my choice to make.
…turns out, in all my travels to the developing world, i had never gotten out of my western bubble to learn what it really feels like to live in poverty and
oppression.
I don’t want to lessen the suffering of the algerian people, but
they deal.
most of them are just used to it.
unlike me, the crabby privileged american, they do not recite to themselves
“every problem has a solution”
whenever they encounter difficulty.
they don’t have a
solution to every
problem.
(matoub lounes, singer and social justice leader
of the berber people, was assassinated: 78 shots
entered his car.)
it made me wonder: how much beauty am i missing out of here, in my easy life, because i’m Still
focusing on the problems?
how many times do we try to make things easier rather than allowing ourselves to learn from the hard
things?