Frustration ensues
I am sad. I wish that there weren't so many people living in poverty and starving. Or having no freedoms at all and living in war torn nations or having awful diseases ravage their countries. I have a hard time with how rich the US is and I feel like there has got to be so much we can do. But I don't know what. Why can't some of our millions of dollars in movie revenues go to feed starving children and their parents and the other people in their villages. Why can't we, instead of living the luxurious life we are used to, help give homeless people places to live. I never realized how we are so utterly blessed to be where we are. My family has a house, 2 cars and we eat at least 3 meals a day. Most people in America have these things but that is definitely not the norm a lot of countries in this world. I feel so bad that we have all that stuff and are still not content. There is always something more to get. I feel so selfish. I also feel so completely frustrated because I don't have a single clue how to help. How to feed the people that need feeding or to protect the people being massacred or to put a roof and heat over people's heads. I feel so helpless, what can I do to help? I truly, truly want to do something. And yet I will probably close this entry and go back to my padded little life and never do anything at all because I don't know what to do. I wonder how mother Teresa got started helping people or how that one scientist knew how to created golden rice. I don't know how all these people got started. I don't know what to do. I want to stop being an arrogant American who lives a rich, cushy life and thinks the whole world lives this way. I want to take my head out of the sand. But once I do, then what?????