Things that irk you......

Contrast these two items and I cannot shake my head enough about the state of our country; on one hand we have people so poor they are eating this "food" yet on the other hand people are paying thousands for "baby reveals"? How/why is this happening?

So much wealth herein yet so many wanting. Unbelievable.

As someone who was first impacted by the passage of the Civil Rights laws and the seeming compassion for others, its disheartening to see how its devolved into today's hatred and drive for defacto segregation.

 

At the risk of getting too political, it's also interesting that a lot of the people paying thousands for the baby reveals are probably the same ones complaining about a disparity of wealth in the country.

 

Moddy, if this was too political feel free to delete.

 

This is almost my exact sentiment when I think of my biggest/greatest spiritual questions. Why do some people have so much, and others so little? Especially when it seems there's really no reason for either to be the case. The inequity is, as you said, unbelievable and unreasonable.

And I say that while considering myself to be among the fortunate ones.

 

On a spiritual/philosophical level, it's great to want to help people but you also have to be aware that there are some people you can only help so much. Either they're too far gone to bring back, or they're so self-destructive that they'll be a have-not no matter what you do.
I think we all know a few people who we'd consider less fortunate but, if you gave them a briefcase with a million dollars cash in it to clean up the mess, would be right back in the same situation fairly quickly. For every hard-working single mother busting her ass at three jobs to put food on the table for three kids (the most common and sympathetic example of a "less fortunate" person) there's probably five or 10 people who are just natural screw-ups unable to keep a job because they can't show up on time five days a week. The former deserves a break and some help as they strive to overcome a bad situation. The latter will constantly put themselves into bad situations because it's in their DNA.

 

People inclined to spend frivolously (or what we perceive to be frivolously) are going to find something to blow their money on. Hopefully some videographers are at least making out well.

 

Older men who wear sandals.

 

FTFY

 

And here I pictured you as a man who wore socks with his sandals.

 

So are we saying that after a certain age men should only wear closed shoes?

 

I walk around barefoot as often as I can get away with it. Sandals are the No. 2 seed.

Shoes suck.

 

Why should a man's age influence whether he wears sandals? That's inane. I got a co-worker who is about 49 and should have been born in like the 1910s. Is always pronouncing what is proper or improper for grown men to wear. His latest? A grown man should never wear shorts. GFY. Says once upon a time you'd never see grown men wearing shorts in New York City in the summer. So what? Babe Ruth also used to wear a fuckin wool uniform. Is that somehow smart?