Wrong decisions based on wrong compositions?

A NASA telescope called NuSTAR for short,which is roaming around approximately 324 million light-years from Earth, happened to be in perfect position to see a black hole's powerful gravitytugging on X-ray light emitted from a nearby Corona.The discourse started over an article about a poor Hindu man who tried to advise a Muslim man against urinating in the open in a public space. The ego-dented Muslim called his friends to give the Hindu a nice bashing that he would never forget. Well, he never had the chance to remember. He was beaten up in the plain view of the public who, sadly, not one person came to his help or did call the police. The poor man succumbed to his injuries.

The incident escalated to a racial clash when the real issue is public apathy and the curse of being born poor.

From that angle, the debate went on to whether being poor is one's own fault or it is due to a composite of factors. My friend insists that it is self-made. Everybody is given equal opportunities in life. People make wrong decisions again and again and the end result is being stuck in the lowest rung of the society. In this wide world, chances are there for our taking. Nothing happens by chance. We are who we are due to decisions that we made in life.

That is where I differed in my opinion. No doubt decisions are ours to make, not everybody is endowed with the wisdom, willpower and intelligence to choose what is indeed best for him in the long run. Some do not have the foresight beyond that of a goldfish. Others are weak to persevere the hardship and throw in the towel easily. The tenacity to withstand a pressure cooker is sum product of his genetic makeup and environmental factors. Poverty is a rut that traps one in a vicious cycle of malady, hopelessness and melancholia. Lack of parental guidance and supervision, lack of opportunities, lack of role models, lack of push factors and intrinsic desire for instant gratifications just perpetuates one to stay in the status quo. Poverty itself cuts down options. The need to bring the bacon draws both parents on a back breaking money earning spree at the expense of familial bonding and parental supervision. Economic deprivation draws them to less affluent neighbourhoods with less equipped educational facilities. Destitution reduces confidence. A large family demands sacrifices from all its members. In the name of compassion and blood bonding, the skin quivers and siblings have to give up privileges. Then there are social diseases and the list goes on.

Realisation to break-free usually comes in the form of inner realisation, a kind of Enlightenment from within one's self with a little help from good friends with the same wavelength and family guidance.
Is there a guardian angel who paves the correct path for you or your astronomical coordinates that determine your lifeline?


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