While you were spending your parent’s hard-earned money for booze and cigarettes; while you were sitting comfortably, sipping your expensive frappe in a warmly lit café; while you were spending endless nights with your clique drinking gin and beer to numb away the so-called stress of studying; while you pranced around with your iPhone strategically positioned in your hand so that anyone who sees you also notices it; while you were pestering your parents over the phone to increase your allowance; while you were leaving your apartment all dressed up to attend a party in lieu of opening your expensive lecture syllabi and laboratory manuals; while you ditched an early class because of a resulting hang-over; and, while your mouth is still being fed by hands who’ve been working to support your schooling and at the same time your family’s needs, somebody out there has stopped schooling not because she wanted to but because her parent’s could no longer pay her tuition fee, and has been working for a fast-food chain ever since just until she can save enough to go back. In her heart of hearts she silently wishes that she wouldn’t be too old when the time comes.
While you were copying your kind seatmate’s assignment because you were too engaged in an online game last night, somebody out there is working three jobs so he could help his parents send his little brother and sister to school.
While you elatedly browsed the clothes at a boutique for a date, somebody’s mother is slowly putting back a blouse she wanted for her birthday because she decided to use the money for her husband’s medications instead.
While you were “taking it easy”, somebody out there has just finished college a semester early and with honors and is already looking for a job so he could support his mother who has breast cancer.
What would have been a better use of your time?
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