What makes some people possess a poverty consciousness, mentality, and

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   gmwilliamsposted 9 years ago

   
   mindset, oftentimes being soul destroying towards anyone in their circle who displays ambition to better their lives educationally and socioeconomically?  What causes such people to be content with wanting nothing for themselves and for their families?  Isn't this a form of mental illness?

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      wildernessposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      No, mental illness would be much better defined as forever driving hard towards massive wealth that does not and cannot buy happiness.  Giving up health, family and love for another dollar in the bank.  Forever trying to "keep up with the Jones" (or pass them by!), forever climbing that all important social ladder to be "better", somehow, than the rest of the peons.
      
      Not everyone is driven to feel superior to others because we have more money or wear more expensive clothes.  To a great many people a comfortable but simple life is far better.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years ago

   Dear gm,
   Yes.
   It is to not try,
   To have a defeatist attitude.
   To be in a depressive funk.
   No!
   Do not live life that way.
   Al Green says it best:
   
   Stand Up
   
   Stand up, and identify yourself
   Stand up, and identify yourself
   
   What's your name, what's the nature
   of the game, who you are
   How far you come, where have you been
   
   Stand up, you've been promised just one day
   And that's today
   Stand up, no sense in sleeping your life away
   
   Where you going, what's your plan
   If you a loser or a winning man
   Tell me now, I wanna know
   You've got to let the glory show
   
   Stand up, tomorrow's about to come
   Are you ready
   Stand up, today's got you on the run
   
   Don't fall down on your face
   and let someone take your place
   Cause you oughta know, you can do it
   Tell me that there's nothing to it
   
   Where you going, do you know
   Did you're friends tell you so
   Can you make it by yourself
   With the strength that you have left
   
   Why don't you give me a hand
   I'll try my best to understand
   I don't know about goodbye
   But nothing fails but a try

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 9 years ago

   Stand Up by Al Green
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXbgxATbApc

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      gmwilliamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Beautifully said and done.

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