How we treat others and how we are perceived go a long way towards our success or failure in life, for those that are well supported have that important backstop that will help them in times of trouble; whereas, those that are not supported or are actively dismissed as being “garbage” lack that backstop and because they don’t have that emotional support available for them are susceptible to not only falling, but basically they are lacking the support system that they can lean upon to get back up.
Indeed, how we are treated at a young age helps to build our character, and when that treatment is overwhelmingly negative, it often serves to break our spirit. In truth, all of us are initially born with the same basic outlook on life, in which, it takes societal members about the same amount of energy to be there for someone as it does to treat someone as if they are irrelevant, of which, the difference in the outcome of these is often quite stark, for those that are supported well, are the type that also will be provided with second chances and empathy – as opposed to those that are ill-supported who don’t get a second chance because they have already been negatively labeled, and are dealt with via indifference or much worse.
We are told that each of us can be anything that we put our heart and mind to, and while this is never literally true, what makes it a truism, is that because of the openness and opportunity within America at its best, bespeaks that we are not buttonholed into being only this or that, or limited in our dreams or aspirations, but because this is the land of opportunity, with plenty of prime examples of people that have made good from trying circumstances, we know for a certainty, that we too can have that type of success and acclaim, with the unfortunate exception of those that have been deliberately discarded as trash, and have had the hope sucked out of their persona.
The greatest sin that society can do to its own is to destroy the dreams that people have, before they ever even get the chance to dream their dreams, based upon their surface characteristics, or from a rush to judgment, or where they come from, and so on. It has to be said that the greatest obligation that this governance has to its people is to provide them with a fair chance to prove themselves in our public educational facilities, in which, the foundation of those schools must be structured to leave nobody behind, as well as to be a sanctuary for those that come from difficult circumstances. We are obligated to hold the youthful hands of all those that need to be validated so that they know that they are indeed of value, and to thereupon give them the necessary support so that they know that they are cherished by the society that they are a member of, for when we do not, we have done so to our harm, for to close the door on those that are most vulnerable, demonstrates that we have forsaken our obligation to those that are the most defenseless and in need of a champion.