In an attempt to ease the pain aching inside me from the soxx game last night, I am turning my post to a worthwhile cause: poverty.
As you may or may not know, today is Blog Action Day; this year’s topic is poverty. Although I did not draft a lengthy post (as I had no idea it was Blog Action Day until I got to work), I would like to share some links:
It’s easy to realise that, relative to many others, our situations are quite favourable. Some of us may have been dealt more or less agreeably along the way, but life has always offered us opportunities. But us is not all and this is something that anyone can readily recognize.
Still, I fear that not enough will ever be done… .1 percent of our GDP will not erase poverty; even the agreed upon 1 percent could not. Non-profits have done great work across the globe, but still poverty exists in great numbers. So what then is the solution?
I believe that it is our humanity, the characteristics each individual shares with each of the world’s population.
Humanity belongs to the individual. If we have arrived at the point where we depend upon our government to display this humanity, then we have lost it. If our worth as a human is continually tied to a dollar amount, we may never find it. The world’s population must be stripped of its factious character and left to prosper in a benevolent world. I fully recognize that this has never been possible – factions arise and aggression becomes the inevitable means of securing one’s prosperity.
But, today’s world is not that of the past. We are more informed, our voices are readily translated to all who wish listen. The factions that have presented themselves and been perpetuated all this time have been based on limited understanding fictional boundaries, by artificial walls built to deter humanity’s true character, one of innate benevolence, a drive for mutual understanding, willingness to pursue knowledge, and boundless ambition.
So then the process is slow, but the solution is readily available: It is for each individual to find his or her humanity. Step outside your world and into another’s – you’ll recognize that humanity has no face, no flag, no creed.
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