So, I don't wanna be a downer here, but I'm starting to enjoy reading the New York Times...
(no, that's not the downer-part of it; The Times is great)
But I've been reading about the refugee camps in Syria; and how there's 20,000 people who use 50 bathrooms.
Can you imagine?
Don't say "no" right off the bat, seriously...try to imagine that...
Meanwhile, America is trying to send weapons to the Syrian rebels.
I don't care who's side America is on...we should be helping these people, not making their fatality rate higher.
For the refugees, the government and rebels are the same. If the military isn't bombing their homes, then the rebels are storming in and looting their villages and raping the women.
It hurts me inside
to imagine people are forced to live like this.
50 bathrooms for 20,000 people?
At the music festival I went to there were way more than 50 bathrooms, and maybe, 10,000 people and those bathrooms were DISGUSTING.
You know what they are in "growing need of"?
baby clothes.
Can you take a minute to think about that?
That's insane.
I took the article and pinned it on the wall...
one reason was to remind me that I should be grateful for all the things that I have....
In a past post I wrote, I was upset that I felt I had a lack of family and people who were there for me...
I feel so wrong.
I have so much; My family is alive, I have a home and a bed, and so many clothes I don't even need.
I open my fridge and bitch about how there isn't anything to eat, when I'm just too lazy to make something.
I really take a lot for granted.
I get upset I have to go to work, but I should be happy that I have the means to get to work, and I have a job that pays good enough for me to manage most of the things need, and isn't life-threatening work.
CHILDREN younger than 13 work in the coal mines of India, wearing only rags...they die every day.
Another reason the article is on my wall is because I really want to help these people.
I just want them to know that there are people who know they are there and CARE!
I CARE! I just want them to know!
No one will help them because they are on the border of Turkey and Syria; it'a a warzone.
I don't really care about the warzone. I just want these people to know that the kindness of others has not abandoned them.
I'm not a religious person, but I think that's what God is.
God is the love and goodness inside every living thing,
I want them to know God has not abandoned them.