About analysing issues...

There are many kinds of issues, personal, social, about money, about relationships, an endless list of problems that assault the heart and mind; we can analyse them endlessly, I personally enjoy healthy debates, preferably if I can win, but we learn little to nothing form winning, the good thing about debates is that, you learn from what you study to prepare yourself for it, you learn from the other person as you listen to their points and pay attention to the passion with which they defend their view.

But, when thinking and studying a problem that affects many people, specially when it grabs people from various and different groups, we can only see and think as us, from were we stand, things look and feel in a way the others can't understand unless you try and explain, sometimes they will listen to you and try and put themselves in your shoes, but most of the time they will not even listen, because of themselves, because of hoe they've been brought up or because they are too comfortable in their own fluffy, butterfly eating world to want to step out and wear others, slightly less comfortable shoes.

We all come from different places, and we can't change that, it's not our fault; and it's a blessing when you get to meet people with different views from yours, because you learn so much from them, but of course, for that, you must be willing to learn, to step down the pedestal you think you are and practice about being humble. People's life-styles are different and they get affected differently by decisions made by our governments and institutions; their lives can be improved, but most of the time they're not; and people from good families, might not see this, I know this, because a couple of my friends come from there, and their biggest issue is whether to go to work or not because they have "bad hair", when most people don't have an option to go or no, because they either don't have a job, they desperately need, or they have a family to feed. I enjoy getting informed in worldwide issues and discussing them with people, but when I try to talk it out with them, they either get mad because I'm offending their system or avoid the topic altogether and show me a photo of a cute animal, which I tend to ignore.

I love smart people, I need people who will challenge me to use my brain, in spite of sounding like I think too highly of myself, I can say, that before putting my support on any side of any problem, I try and learn about it, then think how it affects me, how it affects other social classes, how it affects other people, instead of just saying, in the words of my friend, "it doesn't affect me, so stop talking shit", pardon the curse.

Studying and educating ourselves is one of the best ways of spending our time.