And We Do Nothing

Myanmar Cyclone: 128,000 Dead and Counting; 2.5 million severely affected (and the government is stealing the relief food)

Chinese Earth Quake: Official Death Toll is at 19,500; 10 million directly affected

Attack in Jaipur, India: 63 Dead, 100 wounded

Khar, Pakistan: Over a dozen dead

What is wrong with the world today? Maybe the real question is: what’s wrong with us for not doing something to help? We are all guilty of seeing these terrible tragedies on the news, think to ourselves how horrible it is for those people to suffer and then we go back to our dinner without giving them a further thought. Its easy to talk about how horrible these things are; its a lot more difficult to actually do something to help. The question is: will you?

A Response (Untitled)

How do you know when you’re dead?

Does anyone really know?

Is it any different than living?

Better yet, how do you know that you’re alive?

Here’s my hand, I’ll show you.

Mommy’s here, baby.

Let me warm the silence

Huddle near my voice.

Breathe out, Breathe in

Three, two, one

I’m coming

Digging with my soul

Into your tunnel of despair

I will try to bring you light

Show you the end of the tunnel

I have rolled the rock away

Rise again once more.

Happy Ending

I’m that girl who still believes in the happy ending at the end of the fairy tale. Maybe it’s foolish, but I don’t care. I think it leaves a little open to the imagination. Sure, maybe Disney magic is unrealistic and unnecessarily sappy but it sure is nice to think that everything works out in the end. And you know what? It seems to me, that it pretty much does. Hope can come out of tragedy and a lot of laugher and wisdom can come out of foolish mistakes.

Trust me. I know.

Looks like I’m about Ten Years Behind

This article is about a 10 year college sophomore who knows more about quantum mechanics than most people on the planet. I guess being a 20 year old college junior doesn’t cut it anymore. Good for him, though. I’d be interested to see where he ends up at my age.