Don't mind relative numbers. Is the absolute number of engineers declining? If it is rising, maybe the country can afford to have more people dedicated to sports.
Would you move away from the first world? It may be the type of change required to survive.
Luiz,
The most difficult thing for me about living in a self indulgent culture is trying to teach my sons to be different than the environment they go to school in every day. They need to understand the difference between a 'need' and a 'want'.
I teach them that success is getting what you want but happiness is wanting what you have. My goal is to teach them how to be happy. I hope I am successful.
I am a nurse and spent some time in New Orleans a couple of weeks after Katrina flooded it. I was in the airport turned field hospital but it felt very third world. In such a place it is much easier to appreciate what you do have. I was never so happy to have bottled water or a clean dressing in my life.
I appreciate my country but I could move out of the US without hesitation. My sons however...their father would not let them move away so easily. I will be here for a while. My youngest son will be off to college when I am just 44. Then maybe Doctors without Borders will have a place for me. Who knows?
