Dubai August 2010
What is up?
I feel like there is so much shit in the world that we no longer have enough space in the news to cover all the shit. How is it that the English riots where close to 500 people have been jailed isn't even cover on NPR? Or that the Famine in africa where people are literally starving is only just being covered. What is happening?
What is up?
I feel like there is so much shit in the world that we no longer have enough space in the news to cover all the shit. How is it that the English riots where close to 500 people have been jailed isn't even cover on NPR? Or that the Famine in africa where people are literally starving is only just being covered. What is happening?
Anyways, update...I have officially given my three weeks notice at work. I'm too young to lose my idealism, I figured. The buildings and malls sure are glamorous, but coming home to an empty hotel room and eating peanut butter jelly sandwiches for breakfast lunch and dinner just isn't good for my soul. But i have no idea where I'm off to next and right now I'm ok with not knowing. I will keep you updated.
I'm sitting in my hotel room listening to sirens scream down the street. The heat of this summer peaked at 110-120 degrees across the states and I can feel the heat in peoples hearts growing to a boil. Riots in Egypt has spread to the UK and now curfews are imposed in Philadelphia and cell phone towers are being blocked in San Francisco. What happened to our nation built on freedom? On dreams and possibility? What happened to "Yes We Can?" Life feels like a desert facade and the disparity between what is really happening around the world and the little sliver of information we are exposed to is becoming an increasingly large divide.
My Somalia fund has only received 85 dollars in donation and 50 of which came from my mother. The economy is so bad that people can't afford to care anymore. For me, that is when society is at its lowest, when we stop listening to the voices of others, when we become so preoccupied in our shit that we shut down, and shut the rest of the world out. But maybe that is our form of survival skill. Maybe God gave us creativity and free will and gave us both sympathy and apathy. And when sympathy demands too much, apathy is our only way to cope.
"The violent flash mobs are shedding light on socioeconomic issues in Philadelphia and nationwide, said Chuck Williams, director of the Center For The Prevention of School-Aged Violence at Drexel University.
The youth uprising in the United Kingdom could happen in the United States if poverty and education issues aren't addressed, Williams said."
I'm sitting in my hotel room listening to sirens scream down the street. The heat of this summer peaked at 110-120 degrees across the states and I can feel the heat in peoples hearts growing to a boil. Riots in Egypt has spread to the UK and now curfews are imposed in Philadelphia and cell phone towers are being blocked in San Francisco. What happened to our nation built on freedom? On dreams and possibility? What happened to "Yes We Can?" Life feels like a desert facade and the disparity between what is really happening around the world and the little sliver of information we are exposed to is becoming an increasingly large divide.
My Somalia fund has only received 85 dollars in donation and 50 of which came from my mother. The economy is so bad that people can't afford to care anymore. For me, that is when society is at its lowest, when we stop listening to the voices of others, when we become so preoccupied in our shit that we shut down, and shut the rest of the world out. But maybe that is our form of survival skill. Maybe God gave us creativity and free will and gave us both sympathy and apathy. And when sympathy demands too much, apathy is our only way to cope.
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