Can you share some examples of poverty being romanticized?
What comes to my mind is how there seems to be a lot of emphasis and appreciation for folks who are able to escape it, but that doesn’t seem too bad to me.
Stories about poverty don’t make me romanticize poverty, they make me appreciate what I have.
I don’t disagree with what you said. Just looking for the connection.
Poverty is freedom. It is a freedom so that what I possess doesn’t own me, so that what I possess doesn’t hold me down, so that my possessions don’t keep me from sharing or giving of myself.
Can you share some examples of poverty being romanticized? What comes to my mind is how there seems to be a lot of emphasis and appreciation for folks who are able to escape it, but that doesn’t seem too bad to me. Stories about poverty don’t make me romanticize poverty, they make me appreciate what I have. I don’t disagree with what you said. Just looking for the connection.
Lets start with Mother Theresa then, shall we?
Yes. She really said that.
Didnt she also reuse needles for sick kids?