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Friday, January 25, 2008
This Photo Made me cry
This picture makes you think a lot about how lucky we really are to live in this country. Click on the picture to read what its about.
It makes you see how small our problems are compared to so many out there...god Mike...this is a very sad picture...:( When I first took a look at this picture I couldn't even imagine that little child being real. But the sad reality is that it is very real...we are lucky...that we don't have the type of problems that many others do in other parts of the world. It makes me wonder why God didn't even things out and have some that have so much and here we see a little child who doesn't have anything...it makes you wonder why God is so cruel and why he is doing these kinds of things. He could stop all of this in a second...I know that many would say...you have to have faith..and there is a reason..but it's hard to understand. Why couldn't the photographer pick this child up and take him to the UN food camp?? Maybe other then sorrow, regret also drove the photographer to depression.
I don't think God is cruel... I hope not at least. I just sometimes wonder, if God saw the way the world turned out, a world he had intended to be so good, and was let down and disappointed by what has become of it. I think that maybe that man was supposed to help that child as best he could, but instead he left him there alone. It's not God who is cruel, it is man.
Me too Z. I hope I'm wrong. It would be refreshing to talk to someone to could rekindle my thoughts. But as the years go by I have more and more questions. It used to be good enough to just want to believe...and that was enough for me...But when you watch the news, browse the internet and see the pictures and stories like this...talk to others and listen to what there struggles are...many of us I believe are trying to survive the best way we know and can..you think about the suffering..man kind is not responsible for that completely. God made us into being these selfish creatures...wanting more...yearning for answers.. But when you believe in something greater then all of us you ask yourself if he is powerful enough to create the earth, galaxy, ocean, life....then why...when he created life it wasn't created more equally...? Why did he create these children who are practically dying and on the flip side children who have what I would say just about everything a person could need to live nicely and comfortable. Why is that fair? God created us, and if he is the ulmighty above all...then he made us for who we are...if we are to blame then really god is. God could make an appearance today and restore some people who have lost their faith after losing loved ones to sickness, or murder, or injustice in our system...so many reasons I can't even get into...but he doesn't...instead we are left with some people who preach his word and tell us hang in there....faith...you have to have faith...maybe it's a perspective...maybe without this perspective people wouldn't have hope and without this hope people would be more miserable....I realize my faith is not as strong as before...so much has happened and no answers given. I try to have enough faith to tell my children that they should "believe". But, as I get older the questions become more and more. Maybe our life journey will come to an end where will finally be able to understand and see. Maybe I need to go to church more!! :) Whatever it is I am one of the souls that will continue on the path of moving forward taking things in around me and trying my best to believe in the greater good. When I look at Tyler and Dylan it helps me. It gives me hope.
Like dad says, everything in life needs a balance. As humans, we can talk, we can communicate, we can build these massive buildings, cars, we are on top of the food chain. But we are needy, greedy, sometimes selfish, we can't be perfect. If we didn't see these kids starving in Africa, then how would we know how to appreciate what we have? If everything was the same, there wouldn't be a point to trying your best to survive. I believe God has put us here for a different reason than just to live and die, we have a mind for a reason, that was obviously no accident, so what think about all the time, is if there is something in store for us once we are done with our lives here. I guess we can only hope that a being we have believed in our whole lives was just a ray a of hope in our fragile minds, but seeing recent events of the world getting worse and worse, hope is all we have.
copy the link and check out the wiki page for the photographer who took this pic and many others...explains the real story behind this pic...so sad. this is a real reality check. :(
7 comments:
Sometimes it's hard to imagine that there are people going through such rough things in this world.
It makes you see how small our problems are compared to so many out there...god Mike...this is a very sad picture...:( When I first took a look at this picture I couldn't even imagine that little child being real. But the sad reality is that it is very real...we are lucky...that we don't have the type of problems that many others do in other parts of the world. It makes me wonder why God didn't even things out and have some that have so much and here we see a little child who doesn't have anything...it makes you wonder why God is so cruel and why he is doing these kinds of things. He could stop all of this in a second...I know that many would say...you have to have faith..and there is a reason..but it's hard to understand. Why couldn't the photographer pick this child up and take him to the UN food camp?? Maybe other then sorrow, regret also drove the photographer to depression.
I don't think God is cruel... I hope not at least. I just sometimes wonder, if God saw the way the world turned out, a world he had intended to be so good, and was let down and disappointed by what has become of it. I think that maybe that man was supposed to help that child as best he could, but instead he left him there alone. It's not God who is cruel, it is man.
Me too Z. I hope I'm wrong. It would be refreshing to talk to someone to could rekindle my thoughts. But as the years go by I have more and more questions. It used to be good enough to just want to believe...and that was enough for me...But when you watch the news, browse the internet and see the pictures and stories like this...talk to others and listen to what there struggles are...many of us I believe are trying to survive the best way we know and can..you think about the suffering..man kind is not responsible for that completely. God made us into being these selfish creatures...wanting more...yearning for answers.. But when you believe in something greater then all of us you ask yourself if he is powerful enough to create the earth, galaxy, ocean, life....then why...when he created life it wasn't created more equally...? Why did he create these children who are practically dying and on the flip side children who have what I would say just about everything a person could need to live nicely and comfortable. Why is that fair? God created us, and if he is the ulmighty above all...then he made us for who we are...if we are to blame then really god is. God could make an appearance today and restore some people who have lost their faith after losing loved ones to sickness, or murder, or injustice in our system...so many reasons I can't even get into...but he doesn't...instead we are left with some people who preach his word and tell us hang in there....faith...you have to have faith...maybe it's a perspective...maybe without this perspective people wouldn't have hope and without this hope people would be more miserable....I realize my faith is not as strong as before...so much has happened and no answers given. I try to have enough faith to tell my children that they should "believe". But, as I get older the questions become more and more. Maybe our life journey will come to an end where will finally be able to understand and see. Maybe I need to go to church more!! :) Whatever it is I am one of the souls that will continue on the path of moving forward taking things in around me and trying my best to believe in the greater good. When I look at Tyler and Dylan it helps me. It gives me hope.
Like dad says, everything in life needs a balance. As humans, we can talk, we can communicate, we can build these massive buildings, cars, we are on top of the food chain. But we are needy, greedy, sometimes selfish, we can't be perfect. If we didn't see these kids starving in Africa, then how would we know how to appreciate what we have? If everything was the same, there wouldn't be a point to trying your best to survive. I believe God has put us here for a different reason than just to live and die, we have a mind for a reason, that was obviously no accident, so what think about all the time, is if there is something in store for us once we are done with our lives here. I guess we can only hope that a being we have believed in our whole lives was just a ray a of hope in our fragile minds, but seeing recent events of the world getting worse and worse, hope is all we have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
copy the link and check out the wiki page for the photographer who took this pic and many others...explains the real story behind this pic...so sad. this is a real reality check. :(
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