JUST TO CLARIFY: This is not an online diary. I just sometimes have things I'd like to say and don't wanna pester my friends about them, so I pester you.
Today my extremely intellectual and insightful buddy Fritz brought up a very good discussion topic while enjoying a nice summer's breeze. Out of the 7 billion people in the world, we are such a small fraction. We live in a tiny section of the world. And we are wealthier than the majority of the world. We have practically unlimited access to food, water, shelter, health facilities, entertainment, nice nature walks, lakes, our friends, family, music; the list goes on. My point is, people in most parts of Africa haven't even stepped foot into a place like where we live. They've never seen a movie, never eaten popcorn while laughing at its pathetic stupidity. Why is the world so insanely disproportional and unequal? Better question; what can WE do to equal it out. One person won't change the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are starving in Africa, or that a bunch of rebels in Europe are burning down buildings and causing riots. But in large numbers, people are powerful. This is a democracy, we have the responsibility (and thank God we do) to make a difference and BE the change. Now is a more crucial and important time than ever to take action and open your mind to the possibility of helping make a critical change to these people's lives who are in desperate need.
I know that recently all I've been talking about is these issues in Africa and the corrupted world we live in, but I completely and totally have faith in our God and our people. With God's amazing grace, we can do this. It doesn't matter our age, location or social status. Just start small, but please, something needs to be done about these crazy epidemics and it involves us.
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED THAT MY LITTLE BRAIN THOUGHT OF AT THE TOP OF MY HEAD:
-volunteer for places like Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Mercy Cor, Peace Cor, OFA, etc.
-send money for Africa to the reliable resources on cbs.com to validate it doesn't accidentally get sent to terrorists
-get educated and be a leader
-be progressive, but not foolish
This post was very unorganized and random; my apologies
