Louis Armstrong sang 'What a wonderful world'. Well, we do live on a beautiful planet - but is this a wonderful world? The problem with this place is what Agent Smith in the Matrix concluded - humans. Man can be a terrible being. And i'm feeling a little down because of it.
Was having dinner earlier with some students and ended up talking about India. One student was saying that we should not give the little beggar children there any money - after all, just like in the movie Slumdog Millionaire, these children are actually forced to beg by evil men. The student himself witnessed one of these children going to a man and giving him money which some kind soul had given earlier. But having said that, there is this dilemma - if you give to the children, the money ends up with these evil men. If you dun give them any money, the poor children will get beaten up by those men.
I felt very sad for these kids. What a sad existence they have on this earth. Some of them will be crippled just so that they can get the sympathy of tourists to give them more money.
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My brother's wife was telling me about a fren - who is going thru a terrible time. Divorced, her ex-husband keeps on disturbing her and takes her child under his care even tho he is not allowed to. The police say they can't do anything. The school and day-care do not want to stop the ex-husband from picking up the child. When he takes the child away, he does not inform her and refuse to answer her calls. She is so stressed up over this and her child is no doubt psychologically affected by this tug-of-war between her parents.**********
Speaking about the police, i hear more stories about them, how they would pick on migrant workers and take advantage of them. Even if the migrant workers have proper passports showing that they are here legally, the police would still harass them, saying the passport is false and threaten to bring them into the lock-up - unless they give the police their money and handphone. Yes, the policeman are robbers. If these migrant workers do not have enuf money, then the policemen will ask for sex. What can these migrant workers do? Who would want to stand up for them? Who will protect them from thieves when those who are supposed to be the protectors are the thieves?**********
I read this report today about this practice of bride kidnapping!!!! Yes, women are abducted and forced into marriage!!!! Read about it here. It is so rampant and so unchecked that some women have even accepted this as normal!!!!
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I can go on and on with these kind of stories but i found out about all those stories above just yesterday and today (altho i have heard of some of those practices in the past). I feel a little down - but what can we do about it?
I really dun know. If we can do something practical, we must do it. But i do know that the world needs more love - the real kind of love. The true kind. And what little we can do now is to love - for i'm sure that love will only result in more love.
Gypsy children in Romania - poor but happy when we went to share with them
This should also make us thankful for the things we have in our lives - we may complain a lot (i do!) but when compared to those mentioned above, a day in my life is another day in paradise.
*A song written to bring attention to homelessness.
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