This is going to be a very short post because I want people to read it and then spend time thinking about it. Please feel free to comment with your thoughts on the subject. OK? Good. Ready, set, change the world!
Today as I was eating breakfast I looked down at my feet-and I noticed something. My nails still had a sparse, chipped coating of silver and teal nail polish-from prom. Yeah, yeah, I know prom was three months ago. Somehow I just never got around to finding the nail polish remover. I looked a few times but couldn’t find it, and then I would always get distracted and forget about it.
ANYWAYS the reason I’m talking about my nails is The Prom Nail Discrepancy. Upon noticing my poor, ravaged nails I started to think about the disparity among the nations of the world. Obviously it’s something one thinks about often here but this just put it in perspective a bit. How is it girls in one country can spend upwards of four hundred dollars on a dress they wear once and girls in another are forced to sell themselves to buy food to keep their families alive? How is it that we leave the water running at home without a second thought, but here people ration out a single jerrycan of water- a jerrycan they had to walk kilometers to fetch? And all we have to do is turn on a faucet? How is it we turn our noses up at perfectly good food while people all over the world starve to death? I’m not trying to be self-righteous here. I’m as guilty as the next person, and I’m questioning myself as much as anyone else.
Why are some nations overflowing with plenty and some starve to death by the thousands? WHY?
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