cause I always sit next to someone breast feeding or eating a hot dog.
POST FROM Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Dignity, solidarity and passing the ball
Many people in this world can't say they don't live in a poor country. In many ways it shapes the way we are. I believe for those that we do, it actually can make us horrible human beings, cause we can let things pass in front of our noses like we couldn't care less. The Oh I see this everyday phrase is far from being mystical to representing a cause in resting to the actual fact importance in our minds. And that, my friend is horrible.
I took the subway train yesterday morning, probably 6.30 am and it was almost quiet, you know quiet as a subway can ride, a few folks sitting there but not too crowded at all, a homeless kid that could not be more than 8 years old was sleeping on a line of chairs, on this freezing winter with just a sweater. Obviously, that was his room, we were all coming in his bedroom while he was trying to dream with little angels. That completely destroyed my heart, to the point I weeped a tear.
I know we see poor people everyday, I get that. But you have two ways to go in this life. Pass the ball to someone else and live your life, or make a change. More and more I am finding no meaning in anything anyone else thinks is important, what I used to think it was important, what's the worth or proud in living a none equal opportunistic or narcissistic life. The question How could I pass this like it's nothing? is here in my head, screaming it out louder and louder.
8/13/05 - It's probably not a great idea not to go to your medical appoitment when you get the best job they could have probably offered you, just because you want to mantein that perfect record of never taking a blood test.
