Essays from WWS

There must often be maintained a balance between need and want in order to live a content life. And in this materialistic world of ours, this balance is often disrupted, and then altogether destroyed.

There exists nothing but havoc in the way we have distinguished humans from humans, the wealthy from the downtrodden. Emaciated children survive on the streets, accepting it as their fate to live off of the money they get out of pity. The rich consider whiling away the biggest of fortunes on things they consider worthless, their own birthright and fate.

And we, as society, have validated the struggles of the poor, as they starve for a full meal, and we, too, have given the financially well off a right to mock them in their faces. This gap continues to widen, and we continue to classify ourselves, to forego humanity.

Everyone wishes to be rich, to be smoking and living off the high road in their youth, and in this process we've forgotten that nobody chooses to starve. The downtrodden refuse to pick themselves up, to make a living, and we continue to let them claw for every breath.

The world chokes on the air of pessimism, surrounded by a shroud of superficial superiority. And it is time that we learn to make peace with our souls, for it isn't too long before our positions are reversed.