Morality within a Personal Narrative

 In a close knit society such as ours, I imagine that it would be an important lesson to accept people rather than contort them into a vague comparison to what they once were or could easily be. Arguably, that in fact is how a close knit society, such as ours, functions. As a young girl I have approached life with the notion that equality is a gift; an expectation we, as a society, may all receive. What I have come to realize as a young adult, is the correlation between equality and society is close to nonexistent. Growing up in an impoverished town gave me this perspective through a first hand basis. Being a middle class resident, surrounded by friends and classmates who were significantly struggling, led me to appreciate what I assume to be wealth and health. The constant suffocation of my small town had  angered me when addressing a larger scale of world afflictions. Society, I discovered, was inherently unjust and unequal. Unbelievably so, we don’t and won’t, accept any possibility in changing that. As much as some people ridicule societies inter-workings, remarkable changes are impossible.  It’s the idea we strive for, that a sin-less moral person exists; I’ve yet to meet the angel. As we agonize over our first world problems we can’t ignore real life tragedies. But we do. We are selfish, it’s in our nature. Some go to church, some study philosophy, and some become teachers as we commonly address that the youth are our future. From this, I now approach life with two senses; that of personal conflict and public conflict. What we don’t realize is although we may morally be on a path of righteousness, when it comes down to it, people always choose themselves. 

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