The Right Way To Look at The World

I've been watching the first season of The White Lotus and for those unfamiliar with the show, it follows a few rich families as they spend their time at a resort in Hawaii. Each family is massively flawed though one particularly caught my attention due to their conversations. The mother is a CEO of a multinational cooperation, the father is unknown but makes less than her, son is addicted to pornography and screens, and daughter is a drug addict with insane jealousy issues. They all have different ideas of what is right and voice them often. The daughter has a black friend who she brought, who both share the idea that "it's time for the white man to step aside" which is contrary to the mother who feels for her son, saying that it's not his fault and not he's being unfairly ostracized from society. The resort they are staying at used to be native and sacred land but the government and developers didn't care. Some of those natives now work at the hotel. Tha...
Post a Comment

July 11

 I have a hard time trusting people. It feels like lots have hidden agendas and little slips or weird-sounding sentences give them away. This could all be in my head but the feelings become even more perpetuated when I start listening to podcasters and online voices. Everyone has a take on the current situation and in the end you have zero clue who to trust. 

All I do know is that there is poverty, homelessness, crime, and unhappiness in the streets of New York. It depresses me to know those things and it feels wrong that I don't live that life. 

It gets me down that we still have so much suffering and it worries me that people don't seem to care. 

I just want to feel like I have a certain understanding of how things work but in reality, I don't. Most people who are happy seem either oblivious to those things or have a mindset that is fixed and allows them to see the world in a certain way. For example, when they see people living in poverty they might think to themselves or express out loud, that that person isn't trying. As if they ever had to grow up in an environment like that. 

It just disgusts me that some people think like that but that type of thinking helps them rationalize their world. 

I've thought about flipping the thinking in a way and just saying that, these people were dealt a bad hand and although mine wasn't great either, I have to be thankful for the life I live. 


Comments

Post a Comment