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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 666967" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I do not mean any offence and this is certainly not a comment aim to be personal, just more generally about 'fridge magnet'-slogans.</p><p></p><p>I always have hard time with these positive thinking type of slogans and currently even more so in big part because of pictures and stories we in Europe are currently bombard.</p><p></p><p>While I find them simplistic, bit naive and much less generally and categorically true than they are phrased, I personally find it easy to just ignore them, because I'm one of the lucky ones, who have had lots of options and chances to influence on my life. I also understand they can be helpful, if they give people in plight some hope or make it easier for them to believe that they have some power and control over the situation.</p><p></p><p>However it would be good to remember, that sometimes people do not have that power or control. Right now, all over the world there are millions and hundred of millions people who do not have that control or those choices available for them. And while with some of them it is easy to see, when someone's toddler's hand slips from their hand middle of Mediterranean or when they are standing inside tightly packed freezer truck with 70 other people and oxygen runs out and there is no chance to open the door from inside, at times those people, who have just as little power, control and few choices available to them are amongst us and look like everyone else, and you can not know their situation. </p><p></p><p>Sorry to be a spoil sport, but this feels a bit sensitive topic in current world situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 666967, member: 14557"] I do not mean any offence and this is certainly not a comment aim to be personal, just more generally about 'fridge magnet'-slogans. I always have hard time with these positive thinking type of slogans and currently even more so in big part because of pictures and stories we in Europe are currently bombard. While I find them simplistic, bit naive and much less generally and categorically true than they are phrased, I personally find it easy to just ignore them, because I'm one of the lucky ones, who have had lots of options and chances to influence on my life. I also understand they can be helpful, if they give people in plight some hope or make it easier for them to believe that they have some power and control over the situation. However it would be good to remember, that sometimes people do not have that power or control. Right now, all over the world there are millions and hundred of millions people who do not have that control or those choices available for them. And while with some of them it is easy to see, when someone's toddler's hand slips from their hand middle of Mediterranean or when they are standing inside tightly packed freezer truck with 70 other people and oxygen runs out and there is no chance to open the door from inside, at times those people, who have just as little power, control and few choices available to them are amongst us and look like everyone else, and you can not know their situation. Sorry to be a spoil sport, but this feels a bit sensitive topic in current world situation. [/QUOTE]
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