So, its noon and I'm stuck at home as usual, only this time there's an indescribable stench filling the whole room. The pipes broke , again...and this smell really reminds me of the sewers, kinda gets you thinking bout what its like down there, but the sad truth is alot of us don't even have to try. Sure, it may seem like almost everyone I know has a roof over their head and food on their table, not to mention an internet connection and more than a few friends, but the truth is we are the lucky small percentage of people on this planet with these luxuries. Yes, luxuries, because somewhere at this moment, more than a million people are starving and/or have no home.
I guess it should be easy for us to keep on with our lives and engage in group discussions with our friends about the millions of unfortunate ones, but only briefly, because is it not the goal to focus on the good rather than the bad? That is what we all say, but I believe the bad matters as much as the good, and in this world where there is so much more bad going on, does that not make it more of a priority to us? To do whatever we can to help ourselves and the population of this planet to be better? Yeah, I'd like that to be the goal of every man, woman, and child on this planet everyday of their lives from sunrise to sunset...it would definitely make life more of a fulfillment in itself. We can influence each other so much more than we know: we can make a difference in someone's life just with a smile and we can save more than one life on this planet just by changing the way we perceive the value of everything we have in ours. We should live happy and free if we are blessed with that life, but more importantly, we must always consider using whatever we are given to help those who aren't as lucky.
