Class Systems

Don't let the title fool you this post has nothing to do with school and whether adolescents prefer A/B schedules or having every class the same every day...that argument with have to wait
The class systems I am referring to are the ones found in society; whether or not we are willing to admit it we do have them. If you drive through a city chances are you are going to see some trailers, some houses in bad shape, some ordinary houses, some nice houses, and some really big houses and when you see these different styles of living the first thing that pops into your head is the amount of money those people make and the way they live. Don't deny it you know it's true. It's in our nature as carnal human beings to make assumptions based on what we see at first glance.

It's not until you look closer that you see the real people living behind those assumptions. The people living in a beat up house may be in the process of renovating or you may have caught them on a bad day. The people living n the ordinary house may be filthy rich and just don't want to gloat or make those around them feel inferior. The people living in the really big house may be nearly broke and the house just happened to belong to their parents so they inherited it. I know what you're thinking, :Yeah right" but we should not be a nation to judge on appearances. Admit it, it's okay we all do it. We make assumptions about everyone we see and meet, from the girl who wears the expensive name brand clothes (which she bought at a second hand store) to the boy who drives the Porsche (which he fixed up and painted to look new) to the woman who has the enormous rock on her left hand (inherited from her great-great-great grandmother) to the teenager who has an I Phone 5 (okay I have no reason for why they would have that).
Personally when I think of class systems I think of the old movies where everyone knows who the rich people in town are, they are brought up a certain way, inherit everything they have, and look down on everyone else; then when someone it town makes good in life and move to that part of town, try as they might they can't fit into that society and eventually realize they were happier being poor. You know those good moral of the story movies. However as I talked to my older sister this week she brought me back to this century where people move around all the time so no one knows how rich you really are and where people can be born into the poorest of households but decide to make something out of their life and end up incredibly wealthy. Or those who simply found a way to make money doing what they have a deep passion for, we all wish we could be like that and fortunately this country we live in provides the opportunity for anyone to make good in their lifetime. We have the chance to live a great life, regardless of how much money we have sitting in a bank. Life is what you make it, so choose to make it good.