of helplessness
I don't know how to meet your needs. I don't know how to help you. I don't know why you're stuck in a rut you can't get out of.
I only hear your angry words bursting in my ears. I only read the helplessness in your emails. I only see your tears through the digital flood of text that come to me every day.
If prices of property go down for you, how about the people who bought their houses a year ago? How do you think they feel? If you're telling me now to sell you a house at the price it was five years ago, and then you go and sell your house for a profit, why is this fair? How is this fair? Why is it all about you? Why do you not see the work that goes behind everything, that yes, I know that you're unhappy, but I'm TRYING. I'm trying to meet your needs. How come you don't try to meet mine?
Have we stopped trying to be satisfied, and to aspire - the word I learnt from a friend tonight - to aspire that if today, I tried to work within my means, in two, no, three years' time, I'd be able to be in a better position? Have we progressed as a nation to only stop at this level, because we have stagnated, because we cannot go any further?
I'll tell you what we need to aim for. A gracious society, an actual caring one that your existence matters in. It's not just words and fluff that we're aiming for. We're aiming for satisfaction and happiness. But are we the ones keeping ourselves from being happy?
I only hear your angry words bursting in my ears. I only read the helplessness in your emails. I only see your tears through the digital flood of text that come to me every day.
If prices of property go down for you, how about the people who bought their houses a year ago? How do you think they feel? If you're telling me now to sell you a house at the price it was five years ago, and then you go and sell your house for a profit, why is this fair? How is this fair? Why is it all about you? Why do you not see the work that goes behind everything, that yes, I know that you're unhappy, but I'm TRYING. I'm trying to meet your needs. How come you don't try to meet mine?
Have we stopped trying to be satisfied, and to aspire - the word I learnt from a friend tonight - to aspire that if today, I tried to work within my means, in two, no, three years' time, I'd be able to be in a better position? Have we progressed as a nation to only stop at this level, because we have stagnated, because we cannot go any further?
I'll tell you what we need to aim for. A gracious society, an actual caring one that your existence matters in. It's not just words and fluff that we're aiming for. We're aiming for satisfaction and happiness. But are we the ones keeping ourselves from being happy?