Do you want there to be a Portugal for children? So think like one! – Observer
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Children love to ask questions. It’s actually these endless “whys” that allow you to understand the world at a dizzying speed.
So I find it quite curious that, as we reach adulthood, we lose this habit. Furthermore, we feel irritated whenever someone asks “too many” questions! It’s almost as if, having passed an invisible barrier in the time during which we walk on this planet, the period of discovery and definition of the “I” was obligatorily eliminated, and we would have to depend on what we’ve learned so far to make all the decisions of our life.
I hope this sounds not only familiar but also ridiculous. This is because it is at this stage of life that we face greater challenges than we could ever imagine, that we no longer have the level of support and protection of the past, and it is when we make decisions that, for better or for worse, will leave scars for the rest of life. Why not cut the charade and acknowledge this? Why not adopt a humble position, ready to question the world and thus continue our learning journey?
Despite this being a topic that goes well beyond the political panorama of the country, I would like to focus at the moment on something very concrete: Portugal has been living related to a “badly told story” of eternal distribution of wealth to that, mystically, the government has access. Now, this is where I ask you to exercise your former critical spirit and ask yourself, “But where does the wealth that we want to distribute comes from?”. This is the key question that, apparently, we forget to ask when talking about how the State Budget and PRR!
Of course, it’s much easier to digest a narrative focused on “distributing wealth” so that they understand what mechanisms can create that wealth, and how we can optimize them so that, in the end, we have more to distribute! But as long as we maintain an inert and lazy collective mind, we are doomed to hand out crumbs while a handful of craving feasts on its opulence, fueled by our effort.
So, regardless of whether curiosity killed the cat or not, I have no doubt that it will be this virtue that will unshackle us from the gray past and open the way for us to create the resources and opportunities that will allow us to realize our full potential. .
A final note: if putting our society on a more sustainable path seems like a Herculean task, congratulations: the first step has been taken, that of recognizing the problem and discovering that you feel uncomfortable with it.
As a second step, you have two options: surrender to impotence and fateful negativity or take a constructive line of thought (even if forced bulletin), moving from the simple point to problems also considered solutions.
I invite you to try a second one: inform yourself, question yourself, discuss and share. Specific change is instantaneous and disruptive: by changing, it is regulating an accumulation of small actions that, in retrospect, result in something greater than the sum of the parts.
It remains for us, then, to internalize this fact, and do our part.