With aid in mind

My mom and I just watched Beyond Borders, frankly, I thought it was really good. But I think this guy describes it best… I would call it a must watch… maybe not more then once… and yes, there are errors… but, truly, it’s the point that counts. Why don’t more people get that?
I don’t really want to get up on a soapbox here. Mainly because it’s very late and I should go to bed - you all know how eager I usually am to shove my views in everyone’s face (if not down their throats, which I hope I don’t do…) but let me just say… every one of us is capable of doing something, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant, to help this world and all who call it home.
It’s ours and it’s our responsibility.
These last two years alone we have seen more death and devastation then anyone should in their lifetime. War, famine, flood… u name it, we faced it. And yet… here we are, enjoying our tiny little lives, blinkers firmly on. While millions do nothing but survive. More then 230000 lives were lost in the Asian Tsunami, many more destroyed. Hurricane Katrina killed mercifully few, but displaced thousands… and we cannot even begin to guess the death toll created by George Bush’s ‘War on Terror’.
Everyday people live with the realities of loss, starvation and disease. Is it too much to ask, that each one of us privileged enough – and truly we are - to have everything we need. Family, food, shelter, clothing… is it too much to ask that we spend one moment of time, one thought, one action, to help those in need?
I don’t think so… and the various aid efforts we have seen in the recent past should prove that. So please, do your bit.

We are all the same
Human in all our ways and all our pains
(So let it be)
There’s a love that could fall down like rain
(Let us see)
Let forgiveness wash away the pain
(What we need)
And no one really knows what they are searching for
(We believe)
This world is crying for so much more
- Good Charlotte, We Believe

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