Yeah... so I really just felt like writing something silly like that.
I wish more of us could understand what is going on in war zones. There are so many wars going on every day - so many people going on everyday, that we just either don't think about or aren't forced to think about, and so we simply don't. No one thinks about children living in the still-ravaged Dafur region in Sudan. None of us surfs sites, looking for ways to help. None of us look to refugees in perth, extending the hand of friendship, of normality. No one seeks to find out more about why Lebanese people are seeking to live in this country. How many, look to why it is that not only the president (president? or other eg pm) of lebanon was killed and why a reporter heavily involved in the saga was killed only recently, and how this is linked to syrian intervention and why this has caused unrest in the region. No one seeks to understand the problems outside our own shores. It would do us - and all those who come to this country - a great deal to simply try and put ourselves in those places. Even though we watch the news, live 8, world vision adverts, and cry, feel bad, give money - we do not try to achieve the easiest, the most difficult, and similarly the most vital part of the entire process of helping people - understanding.
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Very true, and very sad. People can give their money, but never their time...
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