While we are complaining we are having financial hardship, most of us who are complaining, are really richer than most people in the world. Think of those poor kids in Africa who have nothing to eat, no clean water to drink, and medication is a luxury.
What do we have to complain about?
The term "womb lottery" describes that the destiny of a person is pretty much secured the moment this fetus is conceived. On a wide scale, which continent, which country, which region of that country; on a smaller scale, the family background, whether the parents are both really caring, whether they can afford to bring up the kid, whether the kid would be born with any genetic mutation or any sickness.
I highly regard the words in the US Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I still hold this claim as truth, I still firmly believe this principle.
Yet, I feel a sense of weakness when I proclaim it; because the world that we live in does not reflect it; If we could find someone with no pre-conception, and let him take a good look at the world, and he will not get to the conclusion that we are in practice all created equal, that we are all actually excercising our rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Some won the Womb Lottery, they were born in Western Europe, Japan, the Four Tigers of Asia, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand--what we call as the developed countries; born with no birth defects; and the majority of the world's population were born into the other division of the world.
Just because of the place they were born in, kids are trained to commit terrorist attacks, girls never get access to education, or they never survive to their 10th birthday because they have all starved to death...
Tragedies, I can make a long list, to the point it will make the listerner either numb and insensitive to anything he is going to hear; or make a sane person depressed.
Apart from these objective uncomfortable truths, we hold bias against those from the lower half of the world, we see them as filthy, unlovable, or that, they should just remain in their status quo, they do not deserve anything better.
While we get in our cars or get on the train and commute to work or university.
We may not actually owe most of those living in a state not half as good as our pets; and the indifference is indeed deafening.
Then I am reminded that this was not what was in God's mind when He created the world, in His world, there was no discrimination, no classes, there wasn't the privileged and the disadvantaged. There was no pain and suffering.
We forfeited the happiness.
In the Garden of Eden, there was no
"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."
There was no slavery at all, no one would ever be a slave.
Here we live in a world where some people have never known the pursuit of happiness.
It's been six thousand years, it has been a long time. This morning in the news, I heard the astromoners found another solar system similar to ours, 5000 light years away. Light would have to travel 5000 years to reach there, suppose we could travel as fast as light, by the time we reach there, it's another 5000 years. From the beginning of human history to now, we have already made the earth a miserable place, would God allow us to ruin another planet?
It is nearly the time the Messiah should come back and receive up back home, nearly, only if we let the whole world hear the good news of the soon coming Kingdom; when the sufferings of this world will be put to an end, and no more "womb lottery" to determine if one will have a happier life than the rest.
Heaven, a place we human being were meant to live in.
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