I may be reading your comment wrong, or else perhaps you meant to end with 'suffering is sometimes by choice'. If I'm reading it right then I find it very upsetting to hear a generalization like that...especially having been currently reading about the horrible situation in Uganda where children from the villages are being kidnapped and forced to be child soldiers to commit horrific acts. Are you are saying it is their choice? And the innocent people being slaughtered...are choosing this? And the villages without access to clean water have chosen this? I find it hard to believe you would say this (unless you are perhaps speaking of multiple lives/karma/reincarnation). But if you are speaking of this life now: I am interested in us enabling there to BE a choice for others. Here in the developed world, with your education and resources...yes, I think you have certain 'choices' that are simply NOT in the lives of many around the world. I myself am currently in the situation you mention having been in...but I know I can find my way out of it. The opportunities are all around me. However this is simply NOT the case for a major percentage of the world. I am advocating that we who Have the opportunity work together towards creating opportunity where there is currently none.
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Date: 2005-11-13 04:47 pm (UTC)I am interested in us enabling there to BE a choice for others. Here in the developed world, with your education and resources...yes, I think you have certain 'choices' that are simply NOT in the lives of many around the world. I myself am currently in the situation you mention having been in...but I know I can find my way out of it. The opportunities are all around me. However this is simply NOT the case for a major percentage of the world. I am advocating that we who Have the opportunity work together towards creating opportunity where there is currently none.