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Most people sound mad when they say there's no freedom in the western world. And I would agree with that assessment, but I do think that we've lost something somewhere along the line. Our obsession with liberty and equality of opportunity has lead to an environment wherein almost anyone can live a life and any of those people can live the sort of life that is generally expected to be lead. You don't have to be clever or hard-working to succeed here, you do if you want to make stacks of cash, but if want you want to do is just live a life, you'll be lead through it easy, and I don't like that at all; it doesn't push those people to self-betterment. What I like even less is that if you don't empathize with either of those scenarios, you are pushed into doing the latter and once you get through university, it can be hard to break free if you're shunted on to that path. If you're not careful, you'll be forty years old before you know it and you'll have nothing to show for it but a bank account that says you're half-way to being permitted to die.
The whole environment here doesn't breed good thinking and we've payed for it dearly. In the UK, you're lead by the hand through your whole life. I don't think that modern technology and consumer capitalism is a recipe for true freedom, it just allows us to make our fun in a huge sandbox, which beats a small cage any day, but I would still rather roam freely, and make my fun wherever fun be found.
0 votedApril 17, 20130I'm somewhat disillusioned with my country and don't see myself living here in five years time. If I could get my life into a state of being able to leave before that, I'd go, but that not being able to stems itself from that which I dislike about my country. Nothing is simple here. Everything has to be complex. Working is a complex procedure, getting from one place to another is often complex, even our food is complex. Hardly anyone I know buys mainly fresh produce. We're lead through everything.
Many people I know also have no will to understand the world around them. They don't even think to question that their whole life is run for them, and with thanks to government schemes and what-not, their whole life is practically planned out for them. You will go through college and get a degree and then get a long-term career, the government will help you get a home in their schemes, you spend twenty five years paying it off whilst paying into your pension fund and then you retire and you live off that until you die.
0 votedApril 17, 20130Today is my birthday... I had forgotten...
After being lost in deep sleep till nine, I had my breakfast. While I was looking at my facebook (instead of 'looking at', you could say 'browsing' if it is online ;-D), I found some notifications on my time line. All were ('were' is used instead of 'is' when talking about the past and when plural; 'all' is plural because it is many, if it was only one notification, you would say 'was' instead) about my birthday wish ('birthday wish' doesn't make much sense in this context but 'about my birthday' does; you could say 'All were wishing me well on my birthday'; that would be perfect). I was shocked; due to exam tension I had forgotten my birthday....
This is how my day started today...0 votedApril 3, 20131- They mostly mean the same thing. The correct form in both cases is 'these' rather than 'this', see: I'm going to cook _these_ noodles or I will cook these noodles ('this' changes to 'these' when plural, if it was only one noodle - then it would be 'this noodle' but it is many noodles so we say 'these noodles'). The only difference in meaning would be that 'going to' suggests that you are doing it very soon, whereas will simply says that you will do it in the future (that could be very soon or in a long time, 'will' does not specify). ;-D0 votedApril 2, 20131
