i wanted to mention... my 2.5hour flight from chennai to delhi today... cost me about $132 canadian. that is, you know, like, a day and a half's wages for me at kamloops dodge. Today i read in the newspaper that a park ranger here makes about...$50 dollars a month wage!! so that ticket i just bought would have been almost 3 months wages for him! this gives you and idea. so only the rich fly. it was almost all indians on my domestic flight, but you know that they are all rich indians. because who else can afford a ticket when it costs three months wages!!!.
i also read somewhere else that most indian people live on an average of one dollar a day. wow. it boggles the mind.
we are so fortunate, blessed, to have been born into the society we have been. and we bitch and we moan about taxes and government and all sorts of silly petty things, instead of living and appreciating our abundance and lack of true suffering. i know already that one of the benefits that i will reap from this trip when i get home is a feeling of power and wealth. i think it will really feel like... i will FEEL how much power and wealth i have, i can truly do anything. these people, they can not. so how do i want to make the best use out of the power and wealth that i was so randomly born into, just by virtue of being canadian? that is what i am now wondering.
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