Africa

I sit and scan thru some pictures of Africa. I always tend to see two distinct things a beautiful land with exotic animal running abroad, then the second thing I see is sick people fighting for their lives. We have all seen the pictures of men, women, and children; their skin sucked in and bones sticking out. I think about WWII and you look at those pictures and what do you see? The same thing. People in slaved, murdered, raped, and starved. Sometime I get angry at our government, wondering why are we not helping. Did we not help in WWII. okay her is where my mind starts spinning. Reality is we have war every where. We have war in our own streets. What has this poor world become. Life never gets really good, we constantly will be at war. Only moments get good. When i look at these pictures of all these wars, there is always one picture of a smiling child. We as humans are survivors. In conditions like the war in Iraq, the war in Africa, the war in the streets, people still find those little moments that make them smile. Sometimes those little smiles are the only thing we have left to hold on to. Most of us can not even dream of a life like some of these people in these wars. A lot of times we only see whats in front of us, but we must always see beyond our selves; the world is a lot bigger than just us. It is true, we can only change one person at a time. We need to start with our selves, better us so we can help better the world one by one.