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RE: Engaging minds, cultivating dreams and learning everyday
Good morning to you! It's 8:01 pm here while I am typing this. It can already be 8:02 or 8:03 by the time I hit that post button. 😃
Yes, time will be the challenge to be joining the activity every Sunday. That is because I also go home to the province during weekends so I can not join every week.
The buildings indeed look bad. If our legislation to tear down high-rise facilities that are 50 years or older, I think those buildings are clear candidates to be torn down. But I heard, though I haven't really researched if it is true, that such legislation is no longer active so buildings will just be left for as long as it stands. I just hope that residents will take opportunity of that time to alleviate their standings and find a better place.
howdy macoolette! well those buildings should be torn down but I doubt if that happens, at least if things work there the way they do here. Those poor people probably have no choice or they'd move.
you go to your parent's home each weekend?
If people are educated enough to explore possibilities and opportunities, they can move out of such kind of facility without waiting for it to be torn down.
No. I don't go home every weekend because there are those catch-up weekends, meeting with friends, or just me-time weekend.
howdy there macoolette! yes Ma'am you are right of course, your first sentence, but there are a huge percentage of the population, at least in this country, who would never consider opportunities to improve their situation. I hope it's not as bad there, I don't know if that's just human nature or a cultural phenomenon.
But in regards to you...what does a "me-time" weekend look like? what do you do?
I wonder why this is so because I see the same thing here. Any idea?
Me-time is either doing nothing or anything that comes to mind. :)
hey there macoolette! wow your question is a huge one with no simple answers but generally speaking people become lazy and complacent when they get on government assistance which all of the poor people are on in this country and they develop an entitlement attitude expecting and demanding that they be taken care of and also a victim mentality where they think nothing is there responsibility.
We've worked with ex cons, people getting out of prison and they all have that same thinking.
as far as your last sentence..wow you could be a politician! lol. great non-answer!
There was this video that circulated around Facebook about a month or so ago. The video was talking about a "study" of poverty. It was saying that poor people behave differently but they are not poor because they behave so that way. It is the other way around that they behave differently because they are poor. The "study" concluded that poor people will forego their different behavior if they are alleviated from being poor. Thus, the "study" suggested the idea of universal basic income.
I really wish it works that way but it does not seem so. We have a government program that gives minimal monthly allowance to poor families. After few years of implementing that, I am hearing feedbacks exactly the same as you mentioned about people becoming complacent. I no longer know how to help people like that.
On the other end, I cannot deny the fact that we have so many people struggling to make their lives better in spite of rampant corruption in the government.
No, thank you about being a politician. And I mean that me-time. It's just how it is. Get up when I want to, have a cone of ice cream for an hour or longer in a convenient store, anything that goes to kill time.