It's Not All Bad! ;)

Hey everyone! Now that I got over my frustration with the technological problems I've been dealing with today (though the issues persist), I was just checking over my previous post and had to laugh.

We have people living in Nigeria and Kenya on here commenting, telling me (in somewhat broken english) that they hope things work out better for me and it just made me double take my frustration and consider the fact that it's all for nothing.

This was a total first world problem.

With all the terrible things happening in the world, I suppose complaining about a high grade computer screwing up and losing a few dollars is pretty futile and absurd.

We are lucky to be alive. We are lucky to be able to live in a place that's not covered in craters. We are lucky to live somewhere with indoor plumbing. We are lucky to be here on Steemit. It could be so much worse.

I have to remind myself of this from time to time. You become spoiled and arrogant with wealth and prosperity.

Now we are restricted under a jackboot on a regular basis by the state powers we're up against, so it's not all rosy, but from an individual point of view, whining about a computer not working properly looks pretty dumb from the perspective of someone living in Nigeria or Kenya (unless they're a politician).

I see kids dying of cancer with smiles on their faces and I'm complaining about a computer?

Let's all remind ourselves of where we are in life compared to others. There's always something worse.

Now, I wasn't super mad about the computer situation or anything, just moderately frustrated. But even that is unnecessary. The real problems lay ahead of us. Individual liberty and self responsibility are the hallmarks of the freedom we're all fighting for. Intrinsic within us from the time of birth. Stripped away by state and banking powers almost immediately. So minding your personal stress and being responsible for your inner peace is a major part of breaking free of the chains so many unfortunately revere.

So did you spill your coffee today? Get splashed by a car? Is it too cold out? Too hot?
Well someone out there today can't drink coffee, not to mention water. Some people died in car crashes. Some people are living on the streets in that cold. The same goes for that heat. Get over it and focus on the windshield rather than the rear view mirror or the blur shooting by your peripheral.

I was recently on a bus because some kids pried my gas tank open and poured something in the tank, destroying the engine. It was a freezing cold day on the bus during a blizzard. The bus took 3.5 hours to get somewhere it would usually take 15 minutes to get to. Everyone one the bus was angry. People were shouting at the bus driver. At their significant others. People were loudly sighing as if it was going to speed up the situation. You could hear people swearing under their breath.

Meanwhile, I sat there, pressed up against a wall as a very smelly, overweight person talking loudly and angrily on their phone sat next to me. I wasn't mad though. I knew I was in that situation and one way or another I was going to continue to be in that situation for a while. I decided to smile and let time pass by. I didn't think negatively. I breathed. There was nothing that was going to change the situation and sitting there moaning and groaning was only going to perpetuate the issue further and make it worse. What is it with the human psyche that one must make an already bad situation worse on the basis of frustration? It's a common disease of the mind that we all face from time to time in life. Learning to manage it is monumentally important to our well being and prosperity.

I went through some very tough times as a kid, mostly a young teenager. It was with great pain and suffering that I learned to prosper or else be doomed to repeat the suffering for eternity.

Get your mind on the prize folks.

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I felt like writing this piece just to give a few people inspiration as well as make up for the fact that I was off the internet for most of the day due to unfortunate circumstances. Oh well! Tomorrow's another day!