be.love.d: I saw what I saw

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway."
- Mother Teresa

Monday, September 1, 2008

I saw what I saw

Watch this.

I saw what I saw

In the words of my dear friend, Blaire,

"How often have we seen injustice/pain/poverty/etc. and just let it roll right off us?

We're numb to the things around us that don't directly effect us."

We truly are numb to the things around us that don't directly effect us.

And I don't want to be numb.

I admit, sometimes the pain is too much for me to handle and my emotions get out of control about it all.

But it's better than being numb.

There is no life in numbness, can't we agree on that?

If you've felt true numbness in your own life, you know there is no true life in that.

Well I don't want to be numb to others' lives either.

Because we are deeply connected. We are one body. So I can not be numb if the rest of my body is not.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Man. Good.

And I agree. Numb is an easy place to find yourself and there are several ways (I think) to end up there. And that's all I've got to say about that, because otherwise I'd be writing a post in your comments section.; September 1, 2008 at 10:28 PM