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WotD: Safety net
You know, in many ways, life is not fair.
Some of us can go through life and never require a safety net.
Others of us have been able to take advantage of a safety net when we needed it, and yet for others, there never was a safety net, and they fell through the cracks.
A safety net is something such as a system that is designed to help reduce hardship or adversity.
All these types of people have in common is that they all have to learn to pull their weight eventually.
Many people in the West are lucky enough to have a job, pay their taxes, build up a retirement nest egg and have insurance in case of unforeseen circumstances, but they never need it.
Then we have Ukraine.
Putin has caused Russia to inflict untold suffering on the Ukrainian people.
They know no one will fight for them.
They are fighting against the Russians with unbelievable determination and ferocity.
But they have a safety net in that the West supplies weapons and ammunition.
They have a safety net as long as they are willing to fight.
Finally, there are people in the world with no safety net to catch them when they fall.
They have nothing to fall back on when something unexpected occurs, such as an illness, war, or natural disaster.
No one is there to catch them when they fall, and no one is there to help them get back on their own two feet.
The scary thing is each one of us falls into these three categories of people.
You can lose your job in a moment.
Very few people will fight for you if you don’t fight for yourself.
And safety nets are fragile.
British pension funds came within hours of collapse recently when the British pound nosedived against the US dollar.
Build your safety net.
Reinforce it.
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