Learn to appreciate what you've got.

[dipsydoodle]

[Lionessa]

1. Actually though a really cute saying and idea, it would effectively

bring progress to a halt. People don't imagine better things, then design better things, then create better things without first the dissatisfaction regarding what's currently available.

So reallly those bottles being used as shoes, were created because of a lack of appreciation for glass bottles.

I get your point, but my point is you're asking for the wrong thing. Instead of asking everyone to be happy with everything they've got in comparison to the poor in other countries, you should provide a link to doing something about those pop bottle shoes, not lecturing us about our wants and desires of what we don't have that have ultimately lead to most of the advancements in the world since the beginning of time.

Furthermore, though you show physical "things," should people learn to appreciate lack of marriage rights, lack of equal pay, lack of insurance or health care, being forced to have vaginal ultrasounds, being bullied into suicide, being beaten and thrown out of the house for being gay....

Like I started with, really a cutesy OP, but ultimately a huge fail as an actual recommendation to others, individually or as a whole.

[Lex]

2. Wow.

Don't fall off your high horse, you might get hurt.

[Lionessa]

3. So looking at the reality of a saying or suggestion is a high horse? You're weird.

[Lex]

4. Thanks. If you think I'm weird

then I definitely take that as a compliment.

[Lionessa]

5. From my perspective, neither a compliment nor a slam, just an observation.

Though I'll give you kudos for taking is as a compliment. I've always said no one can insult a person without their cooperation, I see you've figured that out, that's great!

[fleabiscuit]

7. Lighten up Francis?

[Lionessa]

17. No.

[fleabiscuit]

18. Oh good!

I encourage public displays of assness. Makes for good fodder.

[Lionessa]

22. Since this entire site

was created because folks weren't happy with what they had, I'll accept and embrace "assness", it moves a society forward whether called assness or dissatisfaction or lack of appreciation for what we have. It's a human trait we should all embrace or accept that we then wish to be back in the stone age or worse.

Ignorant acceptance is an attitude pushed by those that want to control us and keep us down, I will never take it lightly. Just think if Galileo had accepted, or Darwin, or Rosa Parks, or , or, or, or, or.... acceptance as a whole is a really narrow and inhibiting perspective not imo to be taken lightly.

You must be a much better follower than I am. And before you try to slam me with anything akin to "well you're no leader," I say of course not. I would not want to be. Each needs to choose based on their own perspective. I really hate black n white scenarios of all kinds, as this OP is, and I think any review of my opinions in most topics would hold that up. And for some reason, Xmas time is filled with all this heart felt stupidity. It just irks me, like it or not, it irks me. If y'all can type the foolishness, I will feel free to be the person who exposes it's inherent foolishness.

Though I am a progressive liberal, I don't come here to agree with everyone all the time, that would be entirely boring, as would be the site. I know a have visited a few DU spinoffs, and honestly it's entirely boring as they have basically one mindset and there's little actual discussion. DU has a wide range of folks and diversities, and we each take different things to heart.

That said, I hate this time of year, it is the most offensive and irritating time of year for many people, particularly children and adult children of child abuse of which I am one, I make no apologies for my perspectives.

[fleabiscuit]

31. Make sense Francis?

[lunatica]

6. That is so condescending!

Should the child wear glass bottles instead!

I doubt there's much you find acceptable in life without ranting about something in connection to it.

[Lionessa]

15. Interesting. I thought is was condescending to tell people whose situations

and unknown to the OP to tell everyone to learn to appreciate their lot in life which the OP has no clue about. Now that's condescending. But rather than present my perspective from that angle I chose to point out a different flaw with that OP.

But you are absolutely right, it is pretty damned condescending for the OP to tell anyone to do anything as well as just plain being bad advice.

[jeff47]

23. No more than the OP. (nt)

[rocktivity]

8. I don't think the OP was aiming that high

I took it as being more of a blow against spoiled brattiness.


rocktivity

[dipsydoodle]

13. That was the intention.

Simply the ingratitude of a child compared with someone who had no choice.

[Lionessa]

16. The problem is...

no matter who you show, there'll always be someone less fortunate. For example, there are children without even so much as bottles for shoes, there are other folks with shoes and clothes being held captive by sex traders, there are children with shoes and clothes who will be severely beaten during this holiday season (that was my lot as a child, Xmas has a weird and unpleasant response from child abusers), there are those who have shoes and clothes but also have cancer and no insurance, etc.

Like I said, it was cute, but except on the most superficial level, it's wrong advice for nearly everyone.

[pacalo]

9. You make a valid point, too, but you should have made your own OP.

Changing the tone of dipsy's point was rude & uncalled for.

[LiberalLoner]

25. +1

[FredStembottom]

10. Dear Lionessa,

Life is full of gray areas.

That Drive to Greatness you describe puts millions of 16gb white phones into the landfills that are now choking us.

And the same small population gets to drive appliance evolution (over and over) by barely using one gizmo before finding it unworthy, in large part thanks to some massive ad campaign installing that idea. Into the white phone burial ground it goes 6 months later.

Meanwhile, teens in the rest of the world are wearing that trash on their feet just as her parents and grandparents did,

( and I want to see those glass bottle shoes you mention)

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Condescending much?

By the way many people (kids in particular) really have no appreciation for what they have.

Of course some of the car adds running currently help to encourage this consumerist attitude.

Don't fall off that horse, you might break something.

[Skittles]

30. OK, femrap

[LoisB]

11. I like your post. I took it as "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet".

[LiberalLoner]

26. +1

[Nye Bevan]

12. In all fairness

you can't store that much video in only 16 GB.

[RobertEarl]

14. Not good for shoes either

Plastic bottles are much better. I can't even imagine strapping an iDiot phone to my foot!

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I get it. Worst, have seen it.

[dipsydoodle]

21. I'm not sure how I would cope with seeing it face to face.

I guess you're braver than me.

[a la izquierda]

24. It's unreal, depressing, and changes one's life.

I was surrounded by it in Mexico and I came back after 8 months a profoundly different person.

[lunatica]

27. I grew up with it in Mexico which is why I'm a Democratic Socialist

Nobody, child or adult should be totally abandoned like that. The least every human being on the planet should have is clothing, schooling, a place to live and food provided by the government.

[dchill]

28. I AM appreciative of what I've got...

But I guess Mitt Romney must be several hundred million times MORE appreciative of what he's got.

[Initech]

29. I remember a while ago there was a viral video...

Where some über wealthy 16 year old brat was screaming at her parents for buying her a red LEXUS CONVERTIBLE... instead of a blue one. That car is worth $60,000. If I was the dad in that video I would have returned the car and got her a 1986 Volkswagen Jetta and a plane ticket to Somalia.