After only having had almost 4 hours sleep, I felt unsurprisingly unwell today. Didn't help that the weather was terribly windy and rainy and weird. I want some predictability. I ended up coming home after boring lectures (Saj came halfway through 241 and left before 246 started) and did everything but work. I'm starting to feel a huge pressure now, I may have to skip socialising tomorrow. I don't like it anymore, stress does weird things to me. I ended up going back to bed and finally watching the Kony 2012 video. Although it inspired me and made me cry; Also, here is what I wrote about it on tumblr:
Whilst I agree that Kony needs to be stopped, I also think that this problem has been happening for far too long. It just annoys me that I remember when I was 7, hearing about these so called ‘child armies’ and seeing kids with guns and being told to shoot people. I obviously didn’t understand it fully back then, but I was aware and I wished there was something I could do. Now, all of a sudden people (and ‘forcefully’ governments) seem to be jumping on the bandwagon. It’s funny how politics and money drive the world’s concerns. Little was being done before this mass hysteria because countries that have power had no vested interest. And now it’s only because of the sudden demand. Forget about the right thing or the humane thing, each and every stuck up politician and state deciders and world issue speakers did not care enough. My family and I donate to charities and causes that help vulnerable children such as kids under this regime, we have for a long time and this whole campaign whilst speaks to me, it also annoys me.
Obviously it’s just a zeitgeist. But more of this should happen at a time when it really counts, not when masses have already been lost in the so called ‘secret war.’ It definitely used to be in the news when I was younger.
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