What is your personal experience with extreme poverty?
Have you simply witnessed it, or did you come from it?
Did it change you?
Answer:
I grew up in a middle-class home. When I moved out as an adult, I became one of the extremely impoverished homes. I've lived on the streets, and had to go for more than a week without food before. I am now, currently, living in an upper-poverty level of income, and am getting closer to lower-middle class again.
The poverty level I lived at did not change me for a long time, because I did not understand money then. Now that I'm starting to get my head "above water", I'm starting to understand how money really works. I learned that it has an energy to it, and that it's "just money", just like electricity is "just electricity". I learned that there will always be as much money available as I need for any given purpose... but what can get it misused or side-tracked is the priority to which I place its value. Whether a bottle of beer is more valuable than a car payment for example... or whether finishing my college education is more valuable than living on the streets again. There will always be "enough" money then, I just have to know where it wants to go to fulfill its greatest potential.
I have lived in extreme poverty for all my life it sucks.
I have witnessed extreme poverty and is not as bad nor as righteous as people think it is. Most people in "extreme" poverty have their basic needs covered, if not they would just die. And they are not all "saints" neither, there are beggars that have very low moral standards and are too lazy to do anything by themselves, they try to appear as martyrs to obtain the hard earned money of others, often harassing people for their mean objectives.
I personally think there are a lot of lies, hypocrisy and manipulation behind this phenomenon of poverty, that is being used by politicians, usually of the left, to gain public support for their dubious projects and obtain fame as benefactors and saviors.
laziness and poverty are cousins..
But yes...I witness poverty on a daily basis. I live in the South and poverty is very preveliant here. I still can't get my mind around why exactly people continue to live that way. I know a girl who has 4 kids and they all have re-occurring lice. LICE!! And U would think that she would want to change for the sake of her kids. They end up following along in the parents footsteps...it's a vicious cycle. Poverty has forced me to be thankful for having enough ambition to not be that way. It's really sad. They are happy just living paycheck to paycheck. No goals. No asperations. No nothing. They just exsist.strange...
As long as a man has a ferret he can never be poor
I have never lived in extreme poverty before but I came from a very poor family. When I was small for lunch it was lemonade and bakes which when I look back on was very good. School shoes was something called "dog muscles", only the poor at the time wore them. Now, they are very popular. They are called now "jelly sandals". I remember one Sunday we were hungry and nothing to cook and a kind lady sent he Sunday meal for us. I have never tasted another meal so tantalizing since.
We never threw away food that is why it is so hard for me to do so now. Our clothes came from a kind lady called 'Auntie Olga' who solicited clothes, toys and money from people. She is still doing that up to this day. I hate to throw away clothes and I have kept some for many years. I also try to help those less fortunate than myself.
I could go on and on but will stop here.
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Did it change you?
Answer:
I grew up in a middle-class home. When I moved out as an adult, I became one of the extremely impoverished homes. I've lived on the streets, and had to go for more than a week without food before. I am now, currently, living in an upper-poverty level of income, and am getting closer to lower-middle class again.
The poverty level I lived at did not change me for a long time, because I did not understand money then. Now that I'm starting to get my head "above water", I'm starting to understand how money really works. I learned that it has an energy to it, and that it's "just money", just like electricity is "just electricity". I learned that there will always be as much money available as I need for any given purpose... but what can get it misused or side-tracked is the priority to which I place its value. Whether a bottle of beer is more valuable than a car payment for example... or whether finishing my college education is more valuable than living on the streets again. There will always be "enough" money then, I just have to know where it wants to go to fulfill its greatest potential.
I have lived in extreme poverty for all my life it sucks.
I have witnessed extreme poverty and is not as bad nor as righteous as people think it is. Most people in "extreme" poverty have their basic needs covered, if not they would just die. And they are not all "saints" neither, there are beggars that have very low moral standards and are too lazy to do anything by themselves, they try to appear as martyrs to obtain the hard earned money of others, often harassing people for their mean objectives.
I personally think there are a lot of lies, hypocrisy and manipulation behind this phenomenon of poverty, that is being used by politicians, usually of the left, to gain public support for their dubious projects and obtain fame as benefactors and saviors.
laziness and poverty are cousins..
But yes...I witness poverty on a daily basis. I live in the South and poverty is very preveliant here. I still can't get my mind around why exactly people continue to live that way. I know a girl who has 4 kids and they all have re-occurring lice. LICE!! And U would think that she would want to change for the sake of her kids. They end up following along in the parents footsteps...it's a vicious cycle. Poverty has forced me to be thankful for having enough ambition to not be that way. It's really sad. They are happy just living paycheck to paycheck. No goals. No asperations. No nothing. They just exsist.strange...
As long as a man has a ferret he can never be poor
I have never lived in extreme poverty before but I came from a very poor family. When I was small for lunch it was lemonade and bakes which when I look back on was very good. School shoes was something called "dog muscles", only the poor at the time wore them. Now, they are very popular. They are called now "jelly sandals". I remember one Sunday we were hungry and nothing to cook and a kind lady sent he Sunday meal for us. I have never tasted another meal so tantalizing since.
We never threw away food that is why it is so hard for me to do so now. Our clothes came from a kind lady called 'Auntie Olga' who solicited clothes, toys and money from people. She is still doing that up to this day. I hate to throw away clothes and I have kept some for many years. I also try to help those less fortunate than myself.
I could go on and on but will stop here.
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