sunshine_queen | (no subject)

I am a great big angerball right now.

It's mostly because my emotions all over the place and have been all day; but now stupid things are irritating me, again, and it's aggravating me and arg.

Today in TOK Marcos and Natascha Patterer did a presentation about about poverty and starvation in Africa.

I will freely admit I'm a horrible person. Yes, I feel badly that people are dying by the thousands of the AIDS epidemic everyday; I feel badly that people are starving; I feel badly that people are dying of diseases that could be cured by simple vaccines. I feel bad. But I've never been moved to do something.

Today, in one of the clips we saw, it had toddlers roaming the streets. They had no parents, no families. Toddlers. Not teenagers, not small children- toddlers. Children under the age of five without homes, without parents, scavenging in garbage. There was one pair- a two year old and maybe a three year old- and the younger one couldn't walk yet, because rats had chewed on her toes.

And you know what? I still don't feel any great or glorious movement in my soul to help the above-mentioned cases.

But those kids? Damn straight I do.

So whatever Marcos and Natascha are organizing... I'm there.

Now I'm less of an angerball. Now I'm just a sorrowball, for more reasons than one.