Life, a great disappointment

[Fininho]

Thanks for the advice.
I live in a country - South Africa - where one is surrounded by much social evil, in many forms.
Suicide is common in this land [I suppose like in any other one, except some very few ones].
Many suicides are due to the economical situation - so much promises in the past that were untrue.
Etc.

[LARA]

South Africa has been changing, though.  Changes take time.  The United States (I'm American)  took time to go from slavery to segregation to a more inclusive society where some racism still exists but is no longer really acceptable.  If I ignore the progress, I could view my country's history as very depressing.

There are still problems where we all live.  But the problems can be combatted.  And progress has been made in your country to end the problems.  

The economic ills in the world seem to be everywhere.  I think here in the U.S. many people grew up with the idea that they would always be more prosperous than their parents.  Go to college, work and everything will be fine.  But it seems that many of us who did this aren't finding the types of jobs we hoped our education would bring.  And it's kind of a nasty surprise.

But the world has been through economic depressions before.  It's been through slavery, apartheid, the Holocaust, Stalinism.  We survived and learned.  We are always learning, making mistakes when we stop paying attention.  But even as resources dwindle and become scarce, we still have the knowledge we gained.  The value of this is immeasurable.  Life doesn't have to follow the bell curve back down into an unethical situation as the world economy falters because we have enough knowledge to come up with better solutions and ways of living.  We remember.

We have a lot of challenges and need clear heads to tackle them.  Without scientific minds, smallpox would never have been eradicated.  There is one virus that we beat.  We have vaccines for so many horrible diseases that killed and disfigured people in the past.  People have stood up against unfairness, violence and dictatorships.  The world is a better place for humanity than it used to be and we still have the ability to make it better.

Life really can be damn disappointing at times.  At times, it freaking hurts, quite honestly. Nothing you are pointing out here is untrue, but it isn't the whole story.