Personal Narrative: Living On A Dollar A Day

In my perspective, as a 16 year old girl, I think that the Earth owns us. I like to think of the Earth a buffet, and the people in the buffet keep going back for more and more seconds. Looking back through the lessons and topics we’ve discussed over the past couple weeks, I find it very interesting that I have been overlooking myself. I have been proved time and time again that I too, am a wasteful, materialistic, consumer. But how can I help it? Today’s society is making it offly difficult to not want stuff and to not waste it either. For example the documentary, “Living On A Dollar A Day”, was a huge culture shock and I wasn’t even there in real life. Just looking at and imagining how my life would be like there, blows my mind. It’s hard to think that’s even possible to live that way (not trying to sound like I don’t know others have less unfortunate situations than me). I feel spoiled and blessed to be where I’m at but yet I feel ungrateful and selfish when I see others who aren’t put in the same situations and circumstances I have been. The world we’re living in has turned into a place where the more stuff you have, the …show more content…
I wouldn’t pepper spray someone or trample people to get it but if I had it, I wouldn’t be complaining. The news stories of people dying or being seriously injured by someone, for example, really wanting a great deal on a PS4 makes me sick to my stomach. OK yes, everyday people day from unfortunate and stupid accidents but come on, someone gets killed for a sale on a MATERIAL OBJECT is a joke! Honestly, how is that even a thing that’s happened before? It really makes you think, how bad do you really want it? It’s like those times when you were a kid and you mom said “no” to you and you’d throw a huge fit about it. It’s seems like adults are missing that and are reverting back to their old ways, doing everything they can to get what they want, even if they are told