"So, how's life?"
"Mm... okay I guess.. :\"
..you guess?
Did you spend your toddler years learning how to fire guns at 'enemies'? Or sold to a man by your parents for seven dollars? Chained to a loom and forced to work by your master? Hiding underground and learning to read and write by candlelight? Do you walk three miles to get a bucket of water from a lake? Do you migrate to the city every night so you can sleep on the streets to lower your chances of getting abducted? Do you hear gunshots as you walk to school? Do you sleep in a cardboard box with newspapers for sheets if you're lucky? Do you go to sleep in fear that you won't wake up the next morning?
Who are we to complain about life?
As you can probably tell from my recent entries, I've been watching a lot of videos, and this video is so... moving. I just had to write another entry. xD
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Gandhi
More subliminal Messaging! :D
PS) I was just thinking about Israel and Pakistan... I have childhood friends who live in both countries. I wonder how they are... Noam, Amal & Manal... IF YOU'RE READING THIS... DON'T DIE! D:<
To us, in our Irvine bubble, this whole conflict feels so unreal. Like the whole thing is something that only exists on paper and in words, similar to a passage from a textbook. But it is VERY real. Maybe at this moment Amal & Manal are in Gaza. Maybe Noam is in the West Bank. Or maybe they're all in heaven already... I don't know.
All I do know is that it has to end.
Last subliminal message :(
we learned a little bit about this in History, and you know, this is exactly how problems like this are fixed - by spread of information.
ReplyDelete1 person CAN make a difference, just by telling somebody else
Anyone can make A difference, only few can make THE difference.
ReplyDeleteAs for who we are to complain about life, we are free human beings whose ancestors have fought and died for the right to whine. The action of complaint is what drives all change--complaint to the present causes action toward the future.