currently listening to: only you by david crowder band
i know i live in a bubble. that i've been blessed in every way possible to be living in this bubble.
but there are just moments in life that remind me life isn't all fine and dandy, butterflies and rainbows.
this week:
1) just hearing more and more on haiti. i used to hate reading the newspaper/watching the news. sometimes i still do. Just more and more stories of brokenness in the world, things like haiti, things like economic hardship, but also so much of people hurting other people. In the depths of it all its just hard to see hope.
2) this past weekend when i went to PY's for church poker night. when i walked out of the metro i'm just standing on the escalator and then the lady in front of me says "that's no good." i look up and i see a young black guy vomit up blood onto the rail of a nearby escalator. two more are handcuffed on the ground. police and sirens everywhere. i had no idea what happened, but i passed some people on the street that mentioned some gunshots? i was pretty freaked out and just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible; this is definitely not what i expected at 7pm at gallery place. this was a pretty jarring experience for me, but for someone else it's just life. during all of this, my mp3 player was playing praan, a song from the where the hell is matt video (if you haven't seen it, i'd recommend it. a guy named matt goes and dances around the world, 42 different countries. that somehow invokes a feeling of common unity in human joy, that maybe there is hope for the world.) it just felt like an ironically sad moment straight out of a movie- as if to say, we still have a very very long way to go.
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i watched a man in haiti dying on the 6pm CNN news - the police shot him in the back for stealing rice. watching him made me repulsed that i THINK i know that image - a man coughing up blood and laying on the street dying - i think i know that image from the countless no. of movies that have used that scene, but i don't. it's the first time ever that the image has been real. my high school history teacher said that it was the press's freedom to show what was happening in vietnam that brought about such a huge public reaction - but soon after all of that started to be censored by the media and we just stopped seeing so much of what was happening out there, i.e. afghanistan. but imagine turning on the tv and really seeing all the pain and death out there? uncensored and one after another, which still wouldn't be a fraction of what's happening. we'd be different people, i'm sure...
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