my life is a constant struggle with Self. it is easy to come across at righteous (not self-righteous), pious, compassionate when online. in day-to-day life, the truth is that i am just as impatient and abrasive as most others.
today i saw a facebook status of a girl i don't know, and she was complaining of how frustrating the past 2 days had been- waiting for internet to be installed in her new home.
as a friend of mine pointed out... what a middle-class america complaint!

she's doing something as frivolous as updating a facebook status (from her mobile PHONE, mind you) and loudly (in internet speak) complaining about her lack of readily available internet.

check your life, and i will check mine, and let's work to eradicate the ungrateful, materialistic feelings of entitlement that permeate our Western lives. not to be self righteous, or to become "better" than anyone else, but because that is what this world desperately needs.