"I don't owe the world an explanation for doing and choosing the things I do."
And it's true; I don't. At the end of my life, I'm only answerable to God for my time and resources spent and as reminded in Ecc 5, He wants me to really, really enjoy life --- I can't do that if I have no joy in Him! The world demands from me (us) the need/promise for wealth, status and prestige. I've decided to not make those demands from the world my ends but the blessings of God whom I must primarily seek to please first. I simply don't owe the world an explanation for doing and choosing the things I do.
Then I thought of my social location and position:
One of the greatest social injustice is the privileged recognising their privileged position as the norm; just how myopic can any fool get?
I cannot, cannot take it when people in privileged positions assume that their choices are the norm and everyone else should follow them. Those who fail to conform to that 'norm' is deemed weird and somewhat undesirable. I don't deny that getting a prestigious scholarship or going to a prestigious college overseas promises great rewards, but if the scholarship, college and its subesquent promises of wealth, status and prestige become the ends, then I highly urge one to reconsider their decision in the light of His Word. It is a social injustice because we use these wealth, status and privilege for ourselves instead to returning some to the dis-privileged --- I intentionally use that word because there are kids halfway around the globe who have their privileges stolen from them.
Don't you dare give me this crap that "I should go overseas because my friends are there" or even "cause it's cool".
