Poverty; A disease or a blessing

Please read and share with at least 20friends Poverty! can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is? I really doubt it. How can anyone who enjoys three square meals a day claim to know poverty? Perhaps, one begins to grasp the real meaning of poverty when one struggles really hard to have one miserable meal a day. dear friend Poverty and hunger are cousins,it causes the former to always drag along the later wherever he chooses to go. If you are wearing a suit, or a complete traditional attire, and you look naturally returned in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails, nor can you have a true feel of poverty if you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind that all these are casual wears, indeed, if you can change from one dress into another, and these are all you can boast of, then you are not really poor. A poor person begins to have a true feel of what poverty means, when, apart from the tethered clothes on his body, he doesn't have any other, not even a calico sheet to keep away the cold night. Let us face it, how can anyone who has never slept outside, in the open appreciate the full harsh impact of homelessness? Yet that is what real naked poverty is but he who can lay claim to a house, however humble can not honestly claim to be nakedly poor even though he might be poor.but the real poor man has no roof over his head, and this is why you find him under the bridge, in tents or simply in the vast open air . But that is hardly all, the poor man faces the world as a hapless underdog in every discussion, every event involving him or others, the poor man is constantly reminded of his failure in life. Nobody accept that his opinion merits consideration, so in most cases, he learns to accept that he has neither wisdom nor opinion. The pauper's lot, naturally rubs off on his child who is subjected to hunger of the body but also of the mind. The pauper lacks the resources to send his child to school and even in communities where education is free, the pauper's child still faces an uphill task because the hunger of the body impedes the proper nourishment of the mind. Denied maximum access to modern communication medias, the poor child has very little opportunity to understand the concepts taught him because his mind is a rocky soil on which the teacher's seeds cannot easily germinate, thus embattled at home and then at school, the paupers child soon has very little option but to drop out of school. That is still not all. Weakened by hunger, embattled by cold and exposure to the elements, feeding on poor water and poor food, the pauper becomes an easy target for disease. This is precisely why the poorest countries have the shortest life expectancies while the longest life expectancies are recorded amongst the richest countries in the world. Poverty is really a disease that shortens life! Thank you For more visit; lugbenews.blogspot.com