Surviving at the own risk

Poverty is a state of being unproductive. It is rampant in the society nowadays. Many are experiencing it. You can even see the face of it everywhere you go. This is how great poverty is.

For me, poverty is, if you don’t have food to consume at least three times a day, if you don’t have enough dress to cloth you, if you don’t have shelter to protect you, if you don’t have stable job to sustain your family, if you don’t have proper education, if you doesn’t have enough medical treatment in the midst of sickness and the like. In short, if you have a way of living that should not be as it is.

How miserable it is thinking that these people are suffering while others even have more than enough but doesn’t know how to value and appreciate it. While these people value even the simplest thing they have and are contented. But somehow, with the intense feeling of poverty, these people tend to do bad things in order for them to sustain their needs. This shows that poverty could divert good people to someone bad because the state of their emotion and mentality has already changed.

Here on our city, poverty is evident on the street children roaming around the city. The dirty, thin children begging for food and money. The streets even serve as their beds. Common sense would tell that these children are experiencing poverty forcing them to look for their own means of survival.

Lucky for us, that our needs are properly provided. We can even have our luxurious wants granted by our parents. Let us not waste all of these, instead, value everything we have because not everybody gets the chance to have what they need and want.