Have you ever felt like a space rocket crashing down on earth, flames everywhere and parts flying off into the atmosphere? Well, I felt just like that rocket last Friday. My best guess is that it was too much coffee. Or maybe not...
Facing a long weekend with a moved holiday from Sunday to Monday, I decided to just stay home and focus. Was it the coffee or was it me? The weekend paid off. It wasn't the coffee, it was definitely me.
With the internship coming to an end, one cannot go without thinking about the future.
What next? Go back to Portugal and get a job satisfying customers and shareholders? Stuck in an office feeling like it's forever, escaping through the computer and talk with everybody with Messenger, or even maybe playing a flash game just to kill time (aside from some characters in the games)? It doesn't sound quite right. Not when you get to know a reality such as the one in Mozambique. Even though within the capital it is possible to lead a life very similar to the one in any developed country, outside, that's where the truth is. Poverty, starvation, lack of education, lack of sanitation, lack of.... everything. Yet, the "everything" is our perception (we, the developed countries).
What the underdeveloped countries perceive as necessary may seem as basic and short of our notion of well-being. No, they just wasn't to live. To eat when they can. To drink when they can. To sleep where they can. Why I haven't said anything about what they want? Probably because what they want is a product of our exposure to them. I don't blame them. They in fact want to be in a state of well-being. But the "how" question is never asked, or at least never answered quite right. They try to attain it through less ethical ways. Hence the criminality and corruption.
Some natives to the underdeveloped countries live off quite well in that way. They even prevent others to reach their positions. That is taken for granted. Everybody knows their place in society. The ambition to get anywhere else must be through the most honest, open and hardworking ways. Most of the time, that ambition is replaced with acceptance of the status quo. As long as the developed countries continue to expose themselves, either culturally or financially, the underdeveloped countries will never go anywhere. The corruption will survive as long as there's foreign investment injected. It's artificial wealth. The local wealth must be distributed and diluted among everyone. And that can only be done in time. How much of it? Don't ask me. Ask the rulers of our world. They know for sure. They just don't care. They prefer to maintain the status quo where the underdeveloped countries are forced to feed the needs of the developed ones.
JC
Facing a long weekend with a moved holiday from Sunday to Monday, I decided to just stay home and focus. Was it the coffee or was it me? The weekend paid off. It wasn't the coffee, it was definitely me.
With the internship coming to an end, one cannot go without thinking about the future.
What next? Go back to Portugal and get a job satisfying customers and shareholders? Stuck in an office feeling like it's forever, escaping through the computer and talk with everybody with Messenger, or even maybe playing a flash game just to kill time (aside from some characters in the games)? It doesn't sound quite right. Not when you get to know a reality such as the one in Mozambique. Even though within the capital it is possible to lead a life very similar to the one in any developed country, outside, that's where the truth is. Poverty, starvation, lack of education, lack of sanitation, lack of.... everything. Yet, the "everything" is our perception (we, the developed countries).
What the underdeveloped countries perceive as necessary may seem as basic and short of our notion of well-being. No, they just wasn't to live. To eat when they can. To drink when they can. To sleep where they can. Why I haven't said anything about what they want? Probably because what they want is a product of our exposure to them. I don't blame them. They in fact want to be in a state of well-being. But the "how" question is never asked, or at least never answered quite right. They try to attain it through less ethical ways. Hence the criminality and corruption.
Some natives to the underdeveloped countries live off quite well in that way. They even prevent others to reach their positions. That is taken for granted. Everybody knows their place in society. The ambition to get anywhere else must be through the most honest, open and hardworking ways. Most of the time, that ambition is replaced with acceptance of the status quo. As long as the developed countries continue to expose themselves, either culturally or financially, the underdeveloped countries will never go anywhere. The corruption will survive as long as there's foreign investment injected. It's artificial wealth. The local wealth must be distributed and diluted among everyone. And that can only be done in time. How much of it? Don't ask me. Ask the rulers of our world. They know for sure. They just don't care. They prefer to maintain the status quo where the underdeveloped countries are forced to feed the needs of the developed ones.
JC
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