My world. Your world. Our world

There are some things that you cant escape. Some things that you cannot run from. Some things that as much as you wish you could, you simply cannot change. If there's one thing in the world that I wish I could help towards its poverty.

Heal the world
Make it a better place

I do believe that I live through rose tinted glasses. I view the world in the way that I want to see it. For all its goodness and happiness and life. When in actual fact thats far from the reality of it.
Like you, coming from a developed country, I live in my little perfect bubble thats impenetrable from the outside. I never want for anything. If I want food, its put there on my place. If I want to wash, I just jump in the shower. If I need a drink its there in the tap. Yet take it all for granted. I know I do, but i've only started to realise just how blessed I really am.

For you and for me
And the entire human race

I've never been to a country crippled by aids. A place where there is no running water. A place where children are literally dying by the side of the road.
I cannot possibly imagine some of the horrors that Third World Countries must live through, and yet there we are complaining of our steak isn't cooked the right way. What sort of world is ours, if we cannot help pull others out from a place we would only describe as hell?

There are people dying
If you care enough for the living

Something I've always wanted to do is travel to a poverty stricken country and in some way no matter how small, do my part to make it that little bit better. To dig a well, to build a house, to take a bag of clothes, everything counts and I intend to include it in my plans. And whilst I'm unsure of when I can do that, in the mean time I donate £3 a week to Oxfam to make whatever change I can. Because that £12 can change the lives of an entire family. I'm also sure that I can deal with the fact that its one less night out a month.

Make a better place
For you and for me

I'm no preacher, thats not what I intended. I just believe that we should all open our eyes and not let the little things matter. To take off our rose tinted glasses and see the world the way it really is. As a place that needs help.