So after the recent viral outbreak of the Kony 2012 movement that has started globally, I've begun to think and question our society. For years it has been pointed out to us, how much it would cost to end poverty, or at-least start to reduce its effect. But, for some reason, although there are many organizations out their doing a great job at opening up our awareness to it all, no one has really seemed to make it hit home to everybody just how simple it could really be. I mean if you really think about how many people are in a financial position to help those in need there's a pretty high % of us, yet we seem to be so consumed and caught up in what we want, that we are too distracted or too uptight about giving away what we have worked for to give it to those in need, those who can't help themselves.
Why is this?
Has the value of human life decreased, do we not feel that everyone deserves to have a life worth living?
It makes me sick to think that celebrities who earn millions of dollars for really doing nothing more than a day to day job, yes making movies or songs, but that's there talent what they are gifted in, but aren't we all talented and gifted in what we do? Yet no one else seems to get paid millions for all the hard work we all put in to our daily jobs.
What would happen if someone decided 'you know what I'm going to make a movie and instead of paying people to act in it, I'll put the money towards giving someone hope for a better life.' What is stopping someone who can have a huge effect on the world doing something as simple as this?
All it would really take though is for everyone who lives in a developed country to donate a dollar, yes just $1, it really doesn't seem like much does it.Compared to what we spend on things that aren't life essentials it's nothing, but to someone who has no clothes, no access to clean water or to medical aid, it could mean the difference between another day of life, or death!
Are people really so blind and cold to think that they are the only ones who deserve to have a nice life.
After spending 6 weeks in Cambodia 2 years ago, it really made me stop and think about life in a whole new perspective. It taught me to appreciate the simplest things in life, like having a house, family, friends, clothes, fresh drinking water and food everyday.
I met a young girl while I was over there, she was 9 yrs old and her name was sunny, she lived with her grandma, because her mum, brothers and sisters had all died of aids, and her father she only saw every couple years because he had 7 other wives. Sunny and her grandma could go days without having anything to eat, but it never stopped her having the biggest smile on her face. She went to school 6 days a week because she wanted to one day go to uni. She had dealt with all of this and she was only 9! I couldn't believe it, as she told me her story I fought back tears, had I really been so selfish, always wanting more than I had the latest phone, new clothes, a better car and all for what? None of the things I wanted would give me a better life.
I also met a lady while I was over there called Bo she had 6 kids, and her husband died when her youngest was a baby, and while she had us at her house every day for lunch she often went without feeding herself or her kids until we were satisfied. We would talk to her everyday about what it was like living in Cambodia, she told us how she had dreams of being able to give her kids a better life, how she wishes things could be different for her and her kids, on the last day of our time in the community she came up to me and asked if I would bring her youngest son back to Perth with me and raise him for her so she knew he could have a better life, this broke my heart to hear a mum tell me how she would give up seeing her son everyday so he could have the essentials for a long healthy life. I can still picture their faces now, through everything they were going through, they still managed to smile. How they do it, I'll never know, all I know is that it's time our generation made a stand again poverty, against child abuse, against anything that prevents someone from living the life that everyone deserves.
I'm just thankful that I had the opportunity to experience this and see it first hand. I prayer though is that more people will start to look past what we want, and see what others need! Now is the time for us to stand up and change the world.
