Gaining side in the game of emerging economy

How do one appear on the gaining side in the game of emerging economy? How many times expats have been tempted by this question, hearing stories of success back in the their homelands while themselves residing in the developed countries and being just part of the hearing. Temptation is rising to join the game, fear is appearing to loose that precious something one have worked so hard to gain. The stories are great when words are heard from far away.

You do know the other half, the unsaid, misunderstood, looked over by passing travelers in pursuit of a story. The real cracker is inside, inside the life of emergence. There are sides in the furnace of emergence, - sidelines, hardcore and anything in the middle. The chaff pushed to the fringes is the mess you so desperately tried to escape, - the unavoidable battle to survive, the daily hurdles of trying to make it, the system that is not, the family network that is lubricated by envy, the odds that are always against. Then there is the hardcore, the gleaming bright core of the emerging market, - the sticky one, which glues all the best and as a parasite feeding itself on the process of shafting blurbs of destitution to the sides. This IS the emerging economy, potent, rising, erupting in the proneness of the moment. You do want to be there, shining in the glory of achievement. But you do know that there is middle ground there, millions of middle grounds, not settled in being middle class but desperate to get to the top, jealous to the bare bones of human attitudes. This middle ground is not in favour of systems, they do not care - their frenzy feeding the top lair of the furnace, self-destroying the fabrics that could have build the harmonious society of the neverland, frenetically shoveling masses off the development ladder, down to the misery of own defeat.

When you are settled in the just and self-conscious middle ground, failed back on the security of knowing systems, debating things of daily matters, - why, why, why you would just off the cliff to the furnace? You aren't a spider hooked on the thread of your own passport, ever ready to jump back to own beloved security. You are not given a chance. You are a particle in the system that builds the prosperity for those not of your choosing. And all too good you know that the furnace is getting hotter and your body is not adjusted anymore to the hellish temperature inside.

The gusto has been laid to rest, marbled in the paperwork of developed world. And you have lost, the game, the life and yourself. You did not give yourself the chance of high-speed development, rocketing up and gushing down, swinging from gold to dirt, obliterating attempts and holding on to the winners. You have missed it. Just because you were afraid not to be on the gaining side in the game of the emerging economy.