On the radio tonight I heard about a child sold for a small color TV into slave labor. The people on the radio, they laughed. How the hell is that funny? So many people suffer so much, I saw it in Florida with the migrant workers from Mexico, sometimes even forced into prostitution rings, which were from time to time busted when a few women would escape. Imagine being HER? Imagine the things men do to these women. Africa is infested with AIDS. People are starving to death and won't have warm clothes this winter. The old lady upstairs in the apartment above lives off of $600 a month and her bank account is down to a few thousand dollars then she is out of luck because all of her family is dead. She tells me she is lonely and scared.. and yet, even she is lucky, she gets to stay warm this winter. And I am worrying about paying my car insurance, how pathetic of me.
If every rich person gave money to the poor and if every person on this earth cared about other people, the world would become a Utopia. But we can?t seem to get our sh*t straight because greed consumes us all. We say to ourselves, what can I do to make a difference? Nothing. I can?t do anything much, but I try to remember to let the guy out in front of me even in rush hour traffic, treat the people at work like gold and ask them how their day was, bust my a*s as best as I can, and support the people I love. It's the best I can do. Sure, I could give my "spare time" to charity, I even looked into working one night a week at a shelter for abused women, but I won't. Why? I am too emotionally delicate to handle it. That is selfish, but I can't help it. Or can I? Why is the world such a f**ked up place? Why are we so greedy? Help me understand, because I don't get it.