Just Think About

Coming home after a long day at work.

Stuck in the traffic.

Angry about one of the colleagues' comments.

Train missed, an hour waiting in the cold.

Favorite bread sold out.

The list is pretty much longer and can be easily continued searching for explanations of the own bad mood, the crabiness.

Instead of take a closer look to the five mentioned luxury problems.

The day at work might have been a long one. At least you have work, probably not your dream job, but just think about how many of us in the meantime don't even have one. Even in the richer states and welfare nations the numbers of jobless and low-income earners are increasing. How many aren't even allowed to work, forced to do nothing, prevented from building an own existence.

So you're stuck in the traffic? With a company car or your own one? Even if you're on your way to work and back home with the public transport system, busses, trolley lines, it means you can travel safe from a to b. Before continuing to complain just think about those not having the possibility to travel safe and free, in between their countries of from one to another. For refugees fleeing from violence traffic can become in the worst case a lethal threat. More like for you in that situation.

Some work colleagues tend to scratch on your sovereignity, and a handful of them might get named sociopaths analyzing their intentions and their behavior. But is it really your reaction like that worth? Inhale, take a deep breath and just think about workers and employees in totalitarian systems. Not only that they might lose their job as a result of directed denunciation, they might also get tracked by the authorities, imprisoned, isolated from their loved ones. You definitely won't be in their situation, believe me.

You're luckily living in a country where trains arrive more or less hourly to manage the distance between your origin and your destination. That's not a reason to moan over the injustice of life dragging yourself down. Just think about all those not able to pay for a ticket. All those not living in the near of a railway station. All those forced to walk dozens of miles, daily, because they can't afford buying a car, even a bicycle.

To have a preferred fresh bread sort is conceded to everyone. Insisting upon an alltime disposability only if you are the bakery's owner. As a regular customer you have good chances that your baker shop reserves the object of your desire for you. Just think about those people standing for hours in front of nearly empty bakeries for some bread when suddenly a grenade caused by an air raid shells into the crowd.

You see, all of these complaints are for sure luxury problems when you live in those parts of our world where your existence is directly not endangered, not threatened.

Just think about.

Merry pre-Christmas time everyone.