This is not just a picture… It is the realities of life happening in the world around us!!

** The Young girl thought to herself as she sat under the Cypress tree in the blazing sun watching the heat waves shimmer above the blinding brightness of the hot sand, “I wish I had food in my stomach. My back aches and my body feels weak and enervated. In the last week, I have eaten only rice and beans. Sometimes I only eat two or three times a week. Having to sleep in one room with the rest of my family on the hard, uncomfortable floor and listen to my brother cough all night, I am sleep deprived. I never know what the next day may bring. I just hope to survive.” Sadly, this is a typical life for someone living in poverty. Half of the world population lives on less than two dollars a day.

Poverty, a growing problem throughout the world, is a severe situation in which people endure critical shortages, such as the basic necessities to survive. A blind woman from Maldova describes life as a poor individual: “For a poor person everything is terrible, illness, humiliation, shame. We are cripples; we are afraid of everything; we depend on everyone. No one needs us” (qtd. in “Dying” 9). People in poverty have lived voiceless and silent, but are finally beginning to get their voices heard. In the past, no one has ever listened to them and what they have to say, but now people and countries are finally beginning to listen to their word

**I recieved this e-mail from my cousin and it broke my heart to see these pictures of these people and especially young innocent babies suffering from hunger around the world. It makes me feel sad to think about how all these people have to suffer around the world when we produce so much food that we can throw it away like its nothing. It makes me even more disgusted that these children and adults eat worse than what our animals eat here in the United States. Bottom line: Next time you eat something, thank god that you have something to eat and please think twice before wasting/throwing your food out….because there are people out there in this world who would consider our "garbage" a gourmet meal! Think twice about this.

We are so lucky! contemplate on this…

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the suffering in the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests.   I hope this picture will always serve as a reminder to us about how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.

Think & look at this…when you complain about your food and the food we waste daily…" MAY ALL BEINGS BE FREE FROM SUFFERING!!!!

 

 

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