30 days in Poverty..

Last week in class we had watched a short "movie" on how a young couple would survive in complete poverty for 30 days. They had to find jobs (only jobs availiable were minimum wage jobs), find an apartment, and basically maintain a very simple lifestyle. While working they were able to buy food and find a place to live. Both of them didn't have a car; so the commute to work was rather difficult especially for the lady. As their income slowly began to become smaller because of all the expenses they had; it got to be SOO negative, that it would take monthes to get that money back all because of one emergency visit. Growing up in poverty, socially wise, many people strive so hard to achieve something but that usually isn't the outcome. Once they feel like they're getting somewhere, something always seems to come up wish always tends to push them back down. We take a lot of things for granted, just because majority of us did grow up in the middle/upper class.. but what we should really notice is how thankful we should be for having the things we do, being able to eat out, and living under a roof that isn't infested with ants.