I’m sitting here in my room, avoiding my ROTC scholarship questions and thinking. And what I’m thinking about was all I could think about all yesterday and this is what happened,
I was in town and I was wearing my that’s shady t-shirt with my product (Red) converse shoes, when this old lady comes up to me and asks if she can ask a question, I said sure, and she said this,
“I couldn’t help but notice your shoes; do they mean you have AIDS?”
To which I said no, and kinda told the story about product red. But after words I got into my car and I couldn’t figure out whether to cry and laugh. Now you’re probably wondering why I wanted to cry (I was wondering to since I never do) and that’s because of the difference of agendas, both set of my grandparents are not motivated to help people outside our nation. Look at what happened with New Orleans; look at how much support we have given to that town. But I remember when that huge tsunami hit the Indonesia area, I remember that was news for 1 month, but last night there was still a special on what happen at New Orleans on CNN. Why are people like that? Why do my parents generations not care? I read BS blog a while back and it talked about a year of Jubilee for nations and their bills. Well I talk to some adults about that idea and you know what, they hated it, and this was the common response, “if we forgive their bills, then they haven’t learned their lesson about spending more then they have.” What the hell! We are talking about nations of PEOPLE not a kid who spends his allowance to fast, people are dying as I sit here, starving to death because our nations pride gets in the way. Why are we (every human on this planet) not doing all that we can to help the homeless, the starving, the sick? Back to the start of the start of the story, what would of happened if I would of told the lady that I did have AIDS, would she of avoided me like the plague? How can I help change that attitude? How can I make a difference? How can I help?
(Do you see why my title is called random thoughts? That is what these posts are, uncut and unedited thoughts of my life.)
Listing to: If Everyone Cared by nickelback
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
absolutely brilliant thoughts.
now the question: what are we going to do about it?
seriously, practically, tangibly... what are we going to do about it?
MOB that!
that will be the next post.
AJ, Molly's aunt here. I just wanted to say that reading a post like this gives me a lot of hope. Too often I hear other adults talking about how apathetic the youth of America are. Makes me crazy. I'm glad you care. Keep caring. And then do something about it. None of us have to solve every world problem and there are thousands of ways to attack every problem. We each just have to do what we can. I believe we are called to that. And maybe blogging about this didn't cure one African kid of AIDS or feed a starving person but words have power, too. It's a start.
You rock.
Thanks I will have part two soon
Post a Comment