Math Prodigy okay with her life

Suffiah finally speaks. She likes her life now because she says she is in control. She has no regrets about doing what she does now and is adamant about continuing her current 'career'.

Guess when you try make sense of your life and the whole process becomes too much that you hit a wall, you finally come up with answers that somehow fit into your own bigger or is it smaller picture. I mean we enshrine freedom of rights these days...so who am I to say that what she espouses is not right, right?? Yet, I am appalled that a supposedly intelligent girl can come to this...a state whereby she sells her body and says that she feels good about it. I mean, to come to this stage of bartering flesh for goods?? True, being smart doesn't mean that you make smart decisions.

I was reading this post in thecicak and realise how similar the line of thoughts are in these two people. One thing I find disturbing though is what used to be wrong is now justified as 'right'....of how we try justify everything. The gray areas are becoming bigger and sometimes I wonder whether we will be overwhelmed by it...that the downfall of man is due to his own inability to discriminate between the right and wrong.....

One of the greatest empires of all time was the Roman Empire. At its height, all roads in Europe supposedly led to Rom. Yet the decline of this great empire was finally not so much the doing of others but their own doing...their decadent lifestyle. If an empire falls...it's usually due to it being conquered....in Rom's case...it just declined. Some historians placed the decadent lifestyle of the emperor and Roman citizens as one of the main causes of its decline...just my two sen