Others have it worse.

A phrase, I have noticed, we get suckered into using more than we need to is that whole, "other people in this world are worse off than us", crap.Why do people continue to use this as an argument for the deteriorating state of our standard of living? Of course other people have it worse than we do, that is why we are us and they are them. That phraseology is something you probably thought came from your mom when she would try to make you eat food that did not agree with you. In actuality it comes from the government, media, and the banks. They are the ones who let you know how bad other people have it in the world so you feel that you can't complain about your own miserable existence. Well, I foe one, don't really care if people are worse off than me, That is the way life is, it's unfair. There are plenty of people in this world that are doing way better than me, I see them all the time, when I see them having a bad day I really don't think they are looking at me saying, well he has it worse. Hell, if someone kicks me in the nuts so hard that it swells to the size of a melon, should I not roll around on the ground and whine about the groin pain, just because a guy just down the road got both of his nuts pulverized in a tractor trailer hitch? I don't care about him, my nuts are my current worry, besides, it's not my fault he was born with a ball smashing fetish, that is of no concern to me. The simple fact is this, if you allow yourself to accept your own withering life style just because some people in another country don't have any food, then you are just causing more of a problem for your own country and your family. Now, if you change things here and you make your standard of living better and that effects your area and everyone else's standard of living increases, maybe then you could take some of that excess pocket money you would have and buy those starving people some food. The fact is that you can not make the world a better place by starving your own family.