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I'm confused about my future, I don't know what to do with it
I've been trying to get somewhere in life. I come from a poor family and it always made me feel jealous seeing all my friends happy with what their parents can give them. It never bothered me at first, my parents always gave us what we needed, we were happy no matter the circumstances, but I've seen where I want to be in life, I don't want to worry like my parents do, I want to be financially happy, I want to show off with what I've done with my life, but it isn't easy, it is quite hard to get somewhere here in South Africa, things have been getting harder and harder since I graduated from school. Any advice on what to do or how I can change the situation that I'm in?
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Looks like no one answered you so I will give a response but I have no real answers. Even here in the US, the middle class in wealth has almost disappeared. I used to be in it and know what it feels like. Now there's only the wealthy and the poor. I fall into the poor bracket. If I allowed my circumstances to have direct impact on how I feel, then I would be miserable. As it stands currently, I write to you from a library, using their internet on my 6 yr old computer that hubby keeps having to fix. We lived in an apt but lost it when hubby who was the only one working broke his leg before Christmas in December and is still healing and unable to work so we live out of our van. Have the government food stamps and health care but must scrounge for money for other needs that food stamps dont cover. I am still the most cheerful, humorous, laughing upbeat person you could ever meet, and the reason is, I know we are doing our best. there is no way to avoid this and I am determined to not let my circumstances dictate how I feel. Now I realize that perhaps, I still may have way more than you have in wealth being where you live, but the culture shock of difference in my living conditions is merely another challenge in life that living on this planet throws at us. Life was never meant to be easy, it is more often harsh, cruel, unfair and roadblocks keep showing up in our path. But remember that the most precious jewel on earth, the diamond is formed by forces in the earth more extreme than any other jewel, and so, like the diamond, we are being forced by lifes harsh unfair realities to have a choice to become shaped into a jewel of a person or crushed instead. I choose to become a jewel. How about you?
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