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I Am Insecure Around Rich People

I Hate Their Stupid Ideologies... Example: "Well, whether I buy this 5th house or donate the money to charity doesn't make a blind bit of difference to how the world works, does it?"
Even buying a chocolate bar (an individual one as opposed to a multipack on special offer) changes the world. See, take Johnny, the boy who gets beaten up every other night as his drunken dad returns home. You try telling me that the 30p extra per day on chocolate you spent (30px5 working days a week = £1.50, over a month that's £6; 3 months is near as damnit £20) which facilitated getting someone in to sort it all out for him didn't make a difference to /his/ world. Then think about that house you want, and scale it up. That's a lot of people's worlds.

They just don't live in the same world as me, and I constantly feel like I don't fit in - my colleagues, my girlfriend, my mum and dad all do their own little tiny bit but it's not enough, to me. I can't stand it!!!!
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DreamCoCreators · 36-40, M
Hey, thanks for your thoughts - they make sense, and I'm really glad you've found people who know what they stand for! I fit into the "middle" section right now - reason in the next sentence...
My insecurities they are, but they would be more under my control if I could only understand them...
You see, if people stopped dining in restaurants in order to help the homeless more, then ... there'd be more homeless. So I don't even understand my own thoughts and how they interact with the world around me.
Also when my girlfriend tries to buy me lunch at 10x the price I would normally pay, having just walked past a handful of people on cardboard boxes with sleeping bags *in the snow*... It's hard to see how that's under my control. Of course it partially is, but ... it's hard.