Conditions:
For some time now I have had this mindset of contentment…rotten,
misguided contentment. It is where I am okay with people having
nothing…I think, “This is their culture.”, “This is how they
have always done things.”, “The poor will always be among us.”
Sure I’m all about bringing food to them, giving them clothes and
medicine…doing practical things for them but I look at their
condition and say, “It’s okay. They just live without. This is
their life.”
Who
am I to say I deserve to have comforts and these people do not? Who
am I to say it is okay for people here to live this way and people at
home should have it all? Why have I separated “us” from
“them”…what is the difference? THERE IS NONE.
I’m
not saying I want the world to look like the U.S. but communities of
people should not share fly invested bathrooms…can you imagine what
it would be like if you lived here and then you got sick? The smell
alone would cause you to throw up. Then think of going home to a
dirt floor and a tarped roof…when it rains you get wet, your things
get wet. The dust from the ground settles in your clothes and your
furniture…you can’t escape being dirty. What about water? People
get sick because they don’t drink clean water…people remain sick
because they don’t have the medicine to fix it. When you leave the
house you have to dodge the poop on the ground because and the food
eaten by flies…it’s rediculas to walk through a dirt street and
then an swarm of flies covers you.
Do
not people at least deserve a roof over their heads, clean water to
drink, medicine to cure common illnesses, a bathroom with a toilet
that flushes…
RANDON
THOUGHTS…as I sit here thinking about this so much comes to
mind…people need money to have these things, to get money they need
a job…then there are so many things people are suffering from that
can easily be changed if the people wanted to change them, they must
want change for themselves…also they need to be educated – have
they never been taught about cleanliness or what causes flies or how
to protect their animals, what their bodies need to stay healthy,
this list goes on and on. I get overwhelmed thinking about it
because I know I cannot change their lives, there is nothing I can do
to change their current condition fully and give them a better life.
Thank you God my life is not measured by how many physical things I
change.
I
have all these thoughts to say people are not without worth and
should not be counted as less.
