a little "lunch" is all you need...

Opportunism. This word just popps out to me as I’m reading about Gaddafi in this weeks edition of TIME. How he has used his position all these years to promote himself, always thinking ahead with every move, every relation. I haven’t heard this word alot, but somehow I feel like it describes what drives people here. Its like they are always looking for an opportunity, mostly in form of “lunch” or something “small” or more understandable to us foreigners; CASH. Money means education, education means a possibility to get a job, and a job, is everything. 

In Norway, speaking of unemployment, seems similar to finding a needle in a haystack. You just cant compare it. Here, even though you have a good education, the chances of getting a job are slim. A friend at St. Johns told me some days ago that before starting on an education, you have to consider if you know anybody in the business, cause then you might get lucky and actually get a job when you’re done.

 I just find miself speachless sometimes... I’ve grown up with all the opportunities in the world. Frases like, follow your heart, do what you want to do with your life and it’s more important to be happy than becomming something you wont thrive with, just seem like cursing. Poverty makes you desperate. Then there’s only one answer, and that is beeing lucky enough, getting an opportunity. No wonder I feel like everybody is focused on money, on getting a great opportunity slammed in their laps. Striking gold....

And for so many years, this is what the white skins have nuriched. A white face giving out opportunity packages... cash and food. No wonder a concept like empowerment and believing that you are an opportunity is hard to introduce. Creating your own world, creating a life you want your children to have. This is what I find myself so desperatly wanting people to believe in. Believe that life is an opportunity we all have. An opportunity that isn’t disgraceful to chace after. But coming as someone who has never had to stand face to face with hopelessnes, or with literally NO opportunities, isn’t easy, and almost feels like blasphemy to say that money isn’t the only opportunity. Is it okay to be willing to sacrifice a safe future for following your dreams, maybee not playing the safe education card? Or don’t frases like this excist in a world where getting food on the table every day is the top and only priority? Beeing here with my white skin and all, I find that this challenges me. I cant help thinking that I will allways second question my so easily condemming, when it comes to falling for the opportunity of money and placing such a high value on it. It is a different world here.