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Modern Living Can Breed Permanent Poverty!

There is a local proverb that says “Never see, come crazy!” simply meaning “If you want everything you see, it can make you crazy.” The desire to want and to have and to be identified as one who has, is causing many people to live in permanent debt while automatically contributing to their continual poverty. We spend thousands to obtain an education, then seek the finest jobs, to then borrow from the many lending institutions, all willing to assist you with your aspirations, for a small profit no-doubt. Then you get so busy at work, day and night trying to make the money to buy and obtain all that you assume you need, regardless of the damage done to your mind and body. So, the big homes and private boats and the modern-day bikes and vehicles, dining at the finest resorts and restaurants, having the best available gadgets, drinking the finest alcohol and smoking the best foreign ‘weed’ and ‘hash’ is supposed to make you successful. The bigger your trolley when buying from the supermarket is also supposed to make you recognized as being successful, not forgetting going to every fette. After all it’s what people see that is important and matters most to them, so you must show-off and be counted as the elite, and no longer are you satisfied with a basic entertainment ticket, it must be V.I.P. and if you date or socialize it must be with the most gorgeous women — and the list goes on. Little do you know that all service providers regardless of the products or services operate because of profits and usually due to your patronizing habits are the ones providing their wealth while your continual debts keep you imprisoned by your own free will. When I look around, there are more and more sellers, because there are more and more buyers. But few people are content with a little of this or a little of that., so it is always about spending all that you can to impress the observers that you are one of the accomplished sons and daughters of this country. At that stage you sacrifice your spirituality, you forget morality, you become more and more selfish, you look down at others and you start to segregate based on your assumed class. It will take you about 40 years or more, or in some cases your whole life, to become debt-free or too-old to enjoy the benefits of your labor. In the process, some get killed unnecessarily, some kill themselves because of the foods that they consume and intake of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol that are frequently used and have become a daily diet, and all the time it is the merchants that profit while the modern day living they sell weighs their customers down. One should have thought that by obtaining that education it would make most people wise, but consumption habits caused by lifestyle forces many people to inflict their own demise and poverty. In the end, many, including whole families, are waiting on the sidelines for your death, to grab on to any material assets you may leave behind. My question is: Is it worth it to live for image and lose the common sense of living safe, healthy and righteous. As the saying goes, the choice is yours and all that I have written is just my point of view. But as a bystander and one who observes human behavior, I suggest that you take my opinion seriously because I just may be the voice that continues to remind you that maybe, just maybe, you are heading the wrong way in life and should be more analytical, for your own sake. We ought never to stop learning and experience should be one’s greatest teacher. But to know, learn and experience and still do the foolish things we do, really boggles my mind.

Carlton Ishmael,VP Digital •
Modern Living Can Breed Permanent Poverty!
There is a local proverb that says “Never see, come crazy!” simply meaning “If you want everything you see, it can make you crazy.” The desire to want and to have and to be identified as one who has, is causing many people to live in permanent debt while automatically contributing to their continual poverty. We spend thousands to obtain an education, then seek the finest jobs, to then borrow from the many lending institutions, all willing to assist you with your aspirations, for a small profit no-doubt. Then you get so busy at work, day and night trying to make the money to buy and obtain all that you assume you need, regardless of the damage done to your mind and body. So, the big homes and private boats and the modern-day bikes and vehicles, dining at the finest resorts and restaurants, having the best available gadgets, drinking the finest alcohol and smoking the best foreign ‘weed’ and ‘hash’ is supposed to make you successful. The bigger your trolley when buying from the supermarket is also supposed to make you recognized as being successful, not forgetting going to every fette. After all it’s what people see that is important and matters most to them, so you must show-off and be counted as the elite, and no longer are you satisfied with a basic entertainment ticket, it must be V.I.P. and if you date or socialize it must be with the most gorgeous women — and the list goes on. Little do you know that all service providers regardless of the products or services operate because of profits and usually due to your patronizing habits are the ones providing their wealth while your continual debts keep you imprisoned by your own free will. When I look around, there are more and more sellers, because there are more and more buyers. But few people are content with a little of this or a little of that., so it is always about spending all that you can to impress the observers that you are one of the accomplished sons and daughters of this country. At that stage you sacrifice your spirituality, you forget morality, you become more and more selfish, you look down at others and you start to segregate based on your assumed class. It will take you about 40 years or more, or in some cases your whole life, to become debt-free or too-old to enjoy the benefits of your labor. In the process, some get killed unnecessarily, some kill themselves because of the foods that they consume and intake of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol that are frequently used and have become a daily diet, and all the time it is the merchants that profit while the modern day living they sell weighs their customers down. One should have thought that by obtaining that education it would make most people wise, but consumption habits caused by lifestyle forces many people to inflict their own demise and poverty. In the end, many, including whole families, are waiting on the sidelines for your death, to grab on to any material assets you may leave behind. My question is: Is it worth it to live for image and lose the common sense of living safe, healthy and righteous. As the saying goes, the choice is yours and all that I have written is just my point of view. But as a bystander and one who observes human behavior, I suggest that you take my opinion seriously because I just may be the voice that continues to remind you that maybe, just maybe, you are heading the wrong way in life and should be more analytical, for your own sake. We ought never to stop learning and experience should be one’s greatest teacher. But to know, learn and experience and still do the foolish things we do, really boggles my mind.
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