I don't ever want to be poor in life and I know you don't want that too but I'm realizing something, poverty seems to sometimes or even most of the times look almost intentional. If getting rich has steps and you choose not to follow them for whatever your reason may be, you're inevitably choosing poverty.
Some are born poor and there are lots of disadvantages that makes it harder to get rich but people have gotten wealthy with worse situations than most that have stayed poor.
Now I'm contemplating this whole thought about poverty being like an art work. It may sound harsh to say that because some people are in hard situations, but there is something to be said about it too.
I mean how people can stay stuck in the same situation for years, that's also due to non financial reasons as well. There are also the little things too, like on a weekend and you spend all day scrolling through nothing. Hours pass and nothing's changed about your life or yourself at all. At least if you're scrolling and you're getting useful wisdom you will apply, then that's better.
The most common thing I see is that it's just easier to do nothing than to try to do something different with your life. In fact, maybe it's safer too. You can't fail at something you didn't try to do. I don't think you can fail if you don't give a damn about something that bothers you enough to have been disappointed by it.
There's also the whole waiting on something to happen, where you wait for luck to show up or your situation to change on its own. I don't know if that's laziness or exhaustion but they say excuse excludes you so the excuse that's making you stay poor truly is your decision for the most part.
Some people like to shift their poverty blame to others. That one's a double edged sword, because sometimes, the world really does suck and make things hard for people. But if you keep blaming others, you never have to look at yourself and you can continue to have a comfortable level of frustration.
I don't even know if the word art describes anything, it sounds too calculated but I think that's what's happening if you look at the bigger picture. I also think the majority of people that live in poverty are not consciously choosing to do so as a lifestyle. But the patterns of behaviour preventing the person from growing beyond where they currently are, do take some time. A consistent way of avoiding living life.
It's kind of strange when I have to say it, you being able to just sit still in one place takes effort as well. If you're not doing anything about the bad situation you're choosing to make it worse on purpose.
