Of late, we've been experiencing a serious bout of inflation. Being a middle class citizen, it's unsettling to see the purchasing power of your hard earned RM being reduced. Couple that with an already unfavourable exchange rate, and you've got yourself some serious angst.
We live in a 3rd world country, earning 3rd world income, but are at the mercy of global price movements. At the same time, if you're reading this, it's likely that you've grown up with 1st world exposure, thus leading to 1st world wants and dare I say it, needs. There sure as hell isn't a Made in Malaysia Xbox 360!
So we're stuck in the middle of these two 'worlds', and I'm just wondering which would be easier.
1) Use that angst to strive to gain more 1st world stature/items?
- Understand that this requires not only enormous resolve, but killer hard work and discipline.
2) Accept and LIVE a 3rd world life.
- Doing this would mean this might be my last post before I sharpen my tools, strip naked, and run off to live in the trees... with my Xbox of course.
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we're not a third world country, we're a developing nation. we have a loooong way to go before we can be a '1st world' country, however, we should always be thankful. look at jakarta, phillipines, thailand, india, china...all much worse off than us. I'm not saying we should 'accept and live a 3rd world life' as u put it. there's always room for improvement, in our case, there's ALOT of room for improvement. i just believe that we should look for something to be thankful for in any situation. the attitude of gratitude will hopefully bring more to be grateful for. u of all ppl should understand, hehe, mr.optimistic :)
now get up off ur ass and do something to make our country a better place!
dare i say that sometimes even if you work hard, you don't get rewarded like you should, if you're working for a mean boss that is.
but if you wanna get out of the country, get out of the country!
cue: camera obscura's let's get out of this country.. heheh
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