Day 248: Don't Be an Elitist
Broad, isn't it? Dictionary.com (because I'm a student and my Webster's is across the room) defines elite as: "a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of abilities or qualities." Some people take this to mean intellectually superior, physically more attractive, a myriad of elitist mindsets are out there to choose from.
But here's the thing: we're all skin and bones. Yes, I may have gotten a four-digit score on my SAT's and yes, your score might have been higher, but that doesn't give you the right to diss me because my number means I'm less smart than you. It's the same thing with race, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender, socioeconomic status, whatever you want to call it. When it all comes down to it, we're all skin and bones.
Every year at Passover, we sing הא לחמא עניא, we invite all who are poor to partake of our meal with us. We disregard the differences in what we may have, and we all break bread (quite literally) together.
Day 249: Don't Encourage Your Children to Date Wealthy People
At my grandmother's 80th birthday party, one of her friends approached me. At the time, I was a junior in high school. This woman has been married and widowed 3 or 4 times (I can't remember). She started to ask me about my love life, and I told her about my boyfriend. Without a second thought, she began to lecture me on the importance of marrying for wealth. I'd continue this story, but I tuned her out, I had no reason to listen to her words.
We know that money can buy things that make you happy, but we also know that retail therapy (as much as I love it) isn't really therapy. How can a marriage be happy when it is based on something so material as money?
Instead of encouraging our [future] children to marry for wealth, we should be encouraging them to marry for happiness and emotional bonds, people who share their values, people with ambition, and people who are kind.
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