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Dear diary,
I hate my life and myself more than anything else in this world. There have been moments when I've felt that, from the moment I was born, I've been carrying an unanswerable question: Why am I here?
When I look at myself, I find myself wondering how I've turned into a stranger to myself. I search in myself for something to love about me, and find just defects and regrets and memories I wish I could erase, and a future that looks like a disappearing road.
May be, one of the worst forms of loneliness is to be with yourself and not being able to bear it.
Having lived such a long time wishing and craving attention and love and approval from other people, I have forgotten to ask myself if I can show any of these to myself. I needed someone to tell me that I matter because my life depended on someone's validation.
And once they're gone or don't look my way anymore, I have considered that as proof of how worthless I am.
May be this has been the lie I have been living all along.
Maybe I don't hate life itself. Maybe I hate my perception of it. Maybe the thing I need to destroy is not myself, but the self image I have built through the years telling myself that I'm not worth anything.
Maybe I just don't know to love myself.
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Many people claim that being extremely rich imposes moral responsibility on a person to address poverty issues. Yet, other people disagree with such an attitude toward being rich.
Nobody, regardless of their wealth, is supposed to resolve problems that occurred due to actions of governments, economies, and societies throughout centuries. Being rich doesn't make money public property.
Often, people say: "Well, why does he not donate all of his wealth to poor people?" In fact, most of the billionaire's wealth is not the amount of money on his bank account – it is his ownership of companies. Giving up his wealth will not necessarily lead to elimination of poverty, since selling it may result in loss of its value.
Additionally, there is a double standard in society. People do not require other people, who are not billionaires to donate all of their savings. Thus, such an expectation cannot be applied only to extremely rich individuals. If the act of donating money is a moral duty, this should apply to everybody based on their ability.
It is quite fine to criticize someone for the way they spend their money. However, assuming that just the possession of great wealth automatically makes the person evil is not right. A person's moral values can be assessed only through the prism of overall behavior, not the amount of money in his bank account.
The discussion about what the rich are supposed to do is a reasonable moral discussion. Transforming it into hatred of the person is oversimplifying a complex topic.
And It is easy to spend someone else's fortune in your imagination. We speak as though wealth becomes public property at the moment it becomes extraordinary, forgetting that ownership doesn't disappear at the same time. To ask people to be generous is normal, but demanding complete sacrifice is different. If morality requires a person to give away until they are not wealthy anymore, when does this requirement stop? The line is rarely defined. The reality is that outrage is directly proportional to success. It is easier to criticize one wealthy individual than to criticize political, economic and social system that created poverty.
