I´ve been thinking about this for a while now. I feel bad. Most of the time for being middle class, for having the opportunity to work a good job, to study, to travel, to buy expensive shoes. I feel guilty. People want to see the world, but they don´t realize the sad reality that exists underneath it all.
Taking six months off from your hollywood job to travel latin america does not make you an expert on this reality. This reality is cold even when it´s hot. These people spend all of their lives searching for something that will help them provide a better future for their children. You spend your whole life searching for someone elses reality. Doesn´t it seem so ironic. These people whose reality you need to know so badly would give their lives to escape this reality but none the less you need to see it. You need to see it, so that you can sit around with your educated friends, the ones that have traveled the world and talk about all of the sadness that exists. Or better yet you can watch it from your Hotel Room Balcony.
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you have given me much to think about here.
i have had similar feelings... mostly in regard to things 'the church' does so people can feel like they have actually contributed.
when in fact, they have not.
likely they have inserted themselves into a culture only long enough to take something away instead of really giving to it.
but it makes for great stories over a bottle of wine.
thank you for your honesty.
and for really doing something.
i pray for you when God reminds me to.
g.
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