Originally Posted by caroline

Oh, I won't give up. I can't because my whole life is built on my work in social justice. But sometimes the hypocrisy I see around me is so staggering... Still, giving up is not an option for me. There is no way I could live the kind of life so many people around me live. I would die in no time. My husband and I are working with the poor as much as possible and when we are not, we're here in the US raising funds. That's our life. That's our awareness. We hold dying children in our arms and then come back to this place we call the US and try to communicate with people whose biggest concern in life is whether or not Paris Hilton has to stay in jail or not, or whether or not they can afford to buy their kids another X box game.

Sometimes it just gets kind of rough.

And that's just a little example of the non-political part of my story.

It just blows me away how people can live in such ignorance and deliberately blind selfishness. It's mind boggling to me that people aren't just outraged when they find out where their tax dollars are going (I won't mention country names here so my post doesn't get political and not approved).

Sometimes I just look at the world and wonder how we can keep walking around filling our little shopping bags and smiling at each other as if NOTHING IS HAPPENING.

Some days I want to stand in the middle of the street and scream HEY THERE'S A HOLOCAUST GOING ON!!! STOP STOP! HELP HELP! WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!