Why are we only willing to help if we can fit it into the comfort of our own lives? Why are we only willing to give what is comfortable? Why are we only willing to give as long as it doesn't mean we have to go without? Why is it better that they go without than that we do?
Why can't we let ourselves be vulnerable? What is this equality joke we say we fight for, when we don't show it in the way we live our lives? We put ourselves higher than the rest. Who will take our blinders off and make us see that each life is worth just as much as our own, and we should be devoting the same amount of effort into building and helping others as we use up every day in building and helping ourselves?
I don't understand how the rest of the world can keep turning and going about as usual while these things happen right before our eyes. How can people continue to care so much about American Idol and the "royal wedding"? How do we have the capacity for coldness in our hearts that we are able to just shrug this off?
And I have been as guilty of it as anyone.
Please keep the people of Alabama and the surrounding states in your prayers. This day has been a devastating one for them, in a way I will probably never fully understand. And these following days, weeks, and months are going to be incredibly difficult and painful ones.
