we all try to climb up the same ladder..

"i wish that i was strong enough to lift not one but both of us.. someday i will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us."

this is a powerful song. 

ive been thinking a lot recently about how fortunate my family, my friends and i are.  we have money, education, shelter, clothes, jobs, paycheques, cars, healthcare and clean drinking water. we have books to read and mandatory schooling. we are able to care how we look and how we dress. life it not hard for us, how can it be? what if we didn't have these things. why do we ever feel we are better than the poorer people, the less educated, the people without clean drinking water? why do we think we have the right? it makes me feel sick knowing we carry these attitudes yet they are almost daily. sure we struggle. we struggle with death and depression, eating disorders and alcoholism. we struggle with hate and embarrassment, heartbreak and abuse. maybe the fortunate ones are not happy, but in no way is life hard for us. we have the means necessary to make us happy and healthy and we brag we have it and do nothing with it.