We are on the same Sea but not the one same Boat
We are living in this world full of inequalities,there's a huge gap in society between rich and poor. Those rich people enjoys the luxurious life, living in a mansion, spending money without even bother how much they spend, riding a sports car then gonna show their faces on the window just to boast the car that they have.
There are riches which came from rags that work hard to taste a good life and they manage to become rich and successful, they are truly definition of riches rather than those riches that feels like they are superiors. They are arrogant and selfish to the point that they don't want to waste their money in charities and donation.
They don't want to touch poor people since they feel disgusted on it, they even don't want to step on informal settlers area since they think that people living there are dirty. It's the reality of life which riches are already eaten by their ego and already influenced by the power of money.
We are living in this world which money is need, if you don't have it then you can't live. It's used to buy and pay things we need and unfortunate for those people who don't have luck to get it. I am referring to poor people, they are considered living under the poverty line which they earn atleast 1 to 2 dollars a day, its lucky if they earn 5 dollars in one day since using it they can buy foods for their family.
I was living in a third world country which poverty is the main problem, people have no jobs and they ended up living in a area called informal settle or the place where someone owned it but they occupied it. I'm not saying that informal settlers is a bad place.
In fact I always roaming around habitat which people are living happily, the houses are close to each other and they don't have faucet that's why they manually fetch water in tanks using their pales. It's very fun to be poor actually, when I was in province we are also poor and we are lucky to have foods on table.
There are reasons why my countryman are suffering from poverty, it's due to improper governance, corruption, lack of opportunities and global crisis. One of the crisis that we facing right now is this pandemic, last 2019 when this pandemic started and it surprised the world.
Lockdowns are implemented globally, business are closed, works are suspended and moved in work from home and the greatly affected is those people who don't have stable jobs specially those with no work no pay. Those people working on factory, working as sellers in business establishments and many more. Millions of Filipinos lost their job and they are problematic where they can get a money to buy food.
This crisis shows that we are on the same sea but not on the same boat. The sea resembles my country under the pandemic and the boats resembles the objects where the people hanging on. Those riches are living on yatch, they enjoy luxurious life while looking at the wide sea while there are people drowning below them, they don't care on other people's life as long as they survive.
They enjoy eating stakes while people below them are freezing due to so much cold of water and feel hunger, there are also people which living on a boat, they are considered to be in the middle, they are the one who had ability to survive but they need to save their resources, they usually give their resources to other people but they don't want to allow those people to ride on their boat since it might get sink and they will also get drown, the third one is those people who's holding in log.
Trying to swim on the sea even though they are already cold and feel hungry, their will to survive makes them motivated not to give up. Lastly, those people who already drowned, they died since they don't have something to hold, they didn't receive any help from people above them that's why they already left behind and sunk beneath the ocean.
I hope you get what I mean, I'm glad now that we are not that tight when it comes to protocols and people are able to return to their jobs and start a new life, we are already living in this new normal, even if this pandemic ends, the scar it marks to people will never begone specially to those thousands who lost their lives due to havoc of COVID-19.
Its good that you have again visit to previous memorable way ..yeah you said same sea but not same boat .yeah dear in life every thing doesn't came back to its original previous one. Good article dear friend