Boost Yourself, Don't be an Ignorant Communist

Recently, I've been looking at the differences in people and in myself. In my mind, there are two kinds of people, happy and unhappy. Happiness is generally a choice and in some cases a challenging one but something that each individual is responsible for achieving on their own. It's not your spouse's job or your child's job or anyone else's job to make you happy.

Generally, responsible people, I believe, are happier people. I'm not talking about people who have a lot of responsibilities and feel like they're drowning in them. I'm referring to people who live the idea that they are responsible for themselves and whatever they can control in the world around them. Let's face it, people who think that things just happen to them and they can't control are usually in a downward spiral that they can't seem to climb out of because they don't believe they have any ability to.

But this mentality extends beyond this idea. A lot of those unhappy people who have no control and no responsibility also tend to be those who envy others. Now, envy is a really unfortunate thing, especially if the result of the envy causes the person to want to tear down the object of their jealousy instead of push themselves to achieve what others have that they want.

These are the people who hate rich people. These are the people who hate beautiful people. These are the same people who don't want to put in the work to be rich or put in the effort to take care of themselves to be beautiful and instead would rather have the rich people be poor and the beautiful people be ugly. I call this the ignorant communist mentality.

Having people out there who have what you want should push you to achieve those things that you want, not take it away from those who have it.

Boost yourself, don't tear down someone else.