A friend shared this... and I feel it drives home a point. How often our children miss this? ... and feel that their problems are life shattering?
And the second set of kids can be so happy with what they get. Appreciate what we have. There're many out there who can only dream of such things that we take for granted.
Life is not fair, huh?? We read about the Somali pirates and we get so indignant of their actions. Hijacking ships and all that. Then the other side of their story emerge.. some of these pirates are also desperate people... people whose country is ravaged by war, the seas pillaged by more sophisticated fishermen; people who are also in part ignorant. Just as in everything else in life.... ignorance breeds contempt, that sort of contempt that sometimes eats ourselves. But I've veered from the vid...
Life is not fair, huh?? We read about the Somali pirates and we get so indignant of their actions. Hijacking ships and all that. Then the other side of their story emerge.. some of these pirates are also desperate people... people whose country is ravaged by war, the seas pillaged by more sophisticated fishermen; people who are also in part ignorant. Just as in everything else in life.... ignorance breeds contempt, that sort of contempt that sometimes eats ourselves. But I've veered from the vid...
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thanks for sharing this... i need to be reminded more often...
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