No it was not a typo. I meant to repeat the damned word. Because I’m going to whine about having first world problems.
I am not sure how many of you are familiar with memes. I’m gonna go ahead and assume most of you are. There’s the First World Problems meme.
This meme
It’s usually relatable (is that a word?) for me. I have lived my life in quite a bit of comfort. I’m not ashamed of that (I don’t understand why people say I should be). The biggest of my problems was that my sister insisted on dropping me to college in her air conditioned car so that I wouldn’t get myself to fall sick. That didn’t work. I fell sick anyway. I blame the internet.
Back to the topic at hand. The internet on first world problems. It acts like they don’t exist. As if we should all be happy at all times because we are better off than some other people.
It doesn’t work that way, Internet. Humanity will mostly aways, complain. That’s normal. Even animals do that. You bring in a stray, for two days it will act like you are god, on the third day it will start treating you as it’s slave. It’s animal nature.
Everytime I see people complain about, I dunno, getting cold water instead of hot water, there’s always some idiot in the comments going “Well, people in Africa don’t get water to drink. Be happy that you are privileged enough to have water at all.” And that’s a severly poilte person. Most people are more along the lines of “You fucking asshole. Have you any idea what people go through? It’s because of faggots like you that humanity isn’t evolving”
Yes. It’s very sad that some people in the world are less privilged than the others. I hate that. I am all for equality. But feeling bad about getting hot water isn’t going to help. Feeling bad about eating well everyday… how is that in anybody’s best interests? I mean seriously, I do not understand. I know that people abuse stuff that they have. Leaving water running, lights and fans switched on, is bad. Giving these people a guilt trip is completely fine. Yelling at a person for spending their money on stuff they want and not giving it all away to charity is, in my opinion (like it matters to people), not okay.
Chances are, that person’s worked hard for the money. They deserve to spend it the way they want. I don’t see people going aroung in tattered clothes because they gave all their money to charity (they might exist, I just havem’t seen them). People get so much flak these days for having stuff that it’s pitiful to watch. It’s not cool.
Maybe I don’t understand. But neither do others. First World Problems are a thing. They exist. Just having a car and food doesn’t have to mean that every thing’s okay. Don’t diss problems just because they don’t have to do anything with life and death!
Actually, on the internet, even life and death problems are treated as a joke. Maybe I should stop reacting to stuff I read here, but it’s not always so easy. At least I’m polite.
And if you still want to, how about you give up your internet connection for the under privileged? No? I thought not. That wouldn’t help a lot. There’s a ton of charities out there who need help. If you can’t or won’t give money, you could help out by helping them out with other stuff. It’s a great feeling, trust me. But telling people what to do (is a great feeling too, in all honesty), isn’t going to suddenly turn them into Nelson Mandela or something. Those people are rare, and were most probably not converted by a host of offensive comments on their posts (I could be wrong, please correct me).
Just saying, people have a right to express their problems, just as you have the right to voice your opinion about their problems, but don’t chase them off the internet. That’s just mean.
Also, the HD graphics on my laptop aren’t working. My life sucks.
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