How lucky we are!

I took this photo from the rooftop of our hotel and it made me think

about how lucky we are in the UK and why so many

refugees flee to our country. In the UK, you don't have

to work a day in your life, have any ambition or make any contribution to society

in anyway and you will be provided for. Then here in India and many other countries, and countries

we will visit, you can work every hour of every day and you may feel lucky to have shelter and live in a room like this, to maybe send your children to school. other cultures put so much more emphasis on being reponsible, making a contribution to society, providing for you family, learning a skill, carrying on their blood line.

Or you could be born witha disability and just because of where you are born be left to fend for yourself, not given any care and be forced to beg on the street.

Then, this may possiblby seen as Karma by others.

All this may made me feel yes- we are so fortunate to have the national health system and social system that we will

provide for us in our time of need. In some communities it seems to have become the norm to live of the state, this is

all that can be expected.

But where has our sense of responsibility for self? Or what about our reponsibility for future generations?

How is it we now feel that we are owed this, that it is our right?