Vox Newman

Changing the world

Based on my personal observation of human interaction these days, pessimism is running rampant.  It seems to me that a great many people blame ‘the world’ for their current circumstances, presupposing that their current circumstances are bad and comparing the situations of poorly defined others who have ‘better’ lives and/or the imagining of another era (that never existed) in which things would be ‘better’.

I’ve never really understood this idea of blaming everyone else for not ‘getting ahead’.  It seems to me that if you were to give up on a goal because it’s too hard to achieve due to the obstacles ‘others’ have placed in your path, then you’ve traded a difficult task for an insurmountable one: how is whining about it going to change the world around you to suit your needs?  Isn’t it easier to circumvent the obstacles in your path rather than to point at them hoping that someone will remove them for you?  In addition to that, it is necessary sometimes to acknowledge that an obstacle cannot be removed or a goal cannot be reached and move on to something else.

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