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Yesterday was world refugee day... but really, everyday should be. its so sad to see the conditions that some of these people live in and the hardships they have faced. I was holding my cell phone yesterday and almost felt sick when i realized that that stupid little piece of technology is worth more than everything those refugees will ever own. The cost of my phone could practically feed a refugee family for a year or send children to school or provide money for necessities, like clean water and shelter. Everyone has a cause that they believe in. This is mine. I'm making a lifetime commitment to helping these people. We take so much for granted here in the United States it's disgusting. We must stop turning our heads to whats happening around the world and open our eyes.
if you have a second, please visit www.ninemillion.org, www.unhcr.org, www.arcrelief.org, www.amnesty.org, www.unicef.org and read about what these people face
anyways, last night i was watching a 2 hour cnn special for WRD featuring an interview with angelina jolie. first of all, if there is one person in this world that i could meet, it would be her. without a doubt. but heres an excerpt from the interview that really made sense to me....
COOPER: Had you ever seen anything like that before?
JOLIE: I hadn't seen anything like that. And -- and I don't think any -- it was just -- it was the most -- it was one of those things where you -- in so many ways, it was -- I was so grateful to have having -- had that experience. And I knew I was changing as a person. I was learning so much about life.
And I was -- so, in some ways, it was the best moment of my life, because it...
COOPER: Right.
JOLIE: ... changed me for the better. And I was never going to be never going to be -- going to want for more in my life or be...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: I mean, how did it change you?
JOLIE: I was young. And I grew up in Los Angeles. And I was very -- you know, so...
COOPER: And all that implies.
JOLIE: And I'm an actor, so everything is very focused on certain things in life.
I was very focused on myself, on my career, on my life, on this -- you know, we have so much and we want for other things, and we don't realize how grateful we should be about things. I had been -- done things, you know, like most teenagers, hurting myself, or doing things...
COOPER: Right.
JOLIE: I mean, all those things. You take your own life for granted.
And then, suddenly, you see these people who are really fighting something, who are really surviving, who have so much pain and loss and things that you have no idea. And you just feel like, your whole life, you have just been so sheltered and so spoiled with so much.
And you're suddenly just so grateful. I remember I called my mom, just told her how much I loved her. And I was so grateful I knew where she was and so grateful I knew where my brother was, that -- that it just changed everything.
if you have a second, please visit www.ninemillion.org, www.unhcr.org, www.arcrelief.org, www.amnesty.org, www.unicef.org and read about what these people face
anyways, last night i was watching a 2 hour cnn special for WRD featuring an interview with angelina jolie. first of all, if there is one person in this world that i could meet, it would be her. without a doubt. but heres an excerpt from the interview that really made sense to me....
COOPER: Had you ever seen anything like that before?
JOLIE: I hadn't seen anything like that. And -- and I don't think any -- it was just -- it was the most -- it was one of those things where you -- in so many ways, it was -- I was so grateful to have having -- had that experience. And I knew I was changing as a person. I was learning so much about life.
And I was -- so, in some ways, it was the best moment of my life, because it...
COOPER: Right.
JOLIE: ... changed me for the better. And I was never going to be never going to be -- going to want for more in my life or be...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: I mean, how did it change you?
JOLIE: I was young. And I grew up in Los Angeles. And I was very -- you know, so...
COOPER: And all that implies.
JOLIE: And I'm an actor, so everything is very focused on certain things in life.
I was very focused on myself, on my career, on my life, on this -- you know, we have so much and we want for other things, and we don't realize how grateful we should be about things. I had been -- done things, you know, like most teenagers, hurting myself, or doing things...
COOPER: Right.
JOLIE: I mean, all those things. You take your own life for granted.
And then, suddenly, you see these people who are really fighting something, who are really surviving, who have so much pain and loss and things that you have no idea. And you just feel like, your whole life, you have just been so sheltered and so spoiled with so much.
And you're suddenly just so grateful. I remember I called my mom, just told her how much I loved her. And I was so grateful I knew where she was and so grateful I knew where my brother was, that -- that it just changed everything.