Despite breathtaking beaches, pristine water, and lush greenery, being entralled by the hills, the huts, the sand, it was unsettling to see the vast poverty of the Philippines.
A day at the spa would take several days' wages of the average person that surrounded me. There are lots of university-degree graduates working jobs that are not providing them with advantageous positions.
People aren't dreaming to that extent. The modus operandi was survival. I saw the devoid of childhood in a child's eyes, bitterness and envy, regret, despondency,... ignorance...
unawareness... in people's faces. And I wondered what governs over being content and resourcesful creating a boundary within. What kinds of ways of thinking were acting as chains...
A self-perpetuating box made valid for whatever reason... and reasons indulged, some of them believable, some fantastic.
I don't understand a system where to thrive is an anomaly.
JNET
we have a similiar situation here, where university graduates are working as bus drivers and waiters !
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