Helping others…

After seen some pictures of Haiti and Cuba after the last two hurricanes I start thinking how well we live in America, we live like kings. I haven’t been either in one of those countries but after seeing pictures after the hurricane they appeal to my emotions in a way that sometime made me feel bad. I mean, we have everything we need and more, but we are never happy. We are unthankful sick consumers. We are always criticizing the car we have, we are never happy with our job; we always want more expensive stuff. “I should have the new BMW”, we always say. There is nothing bad in desiring more things like a better car or a better house, the bad thing is not enjoying what we have right now. We should take pleasure in what we have and work hard for better things. If we start analyzing how people live or better said survive in third world countries, we will be amazed. But since we live in our palace called USA we have never faced the reality in third world countries. If by any chance you decide to go to and visit low class neighborhood in any country bellows Mexico, countries like Haiti or Cuba where the poverty and starving rates are extremely high you will see how life is. Where water and light are thing that you have daily fight for it, where people have to steal to find daily necessities like milk or bread, simply because there is no place to work. And the main cause of this is the human greed. In those countries the wealth is managed by an extremely low percentage of the population, usually a few families that control everything. They don’t care about the rest, they just want to increase their savings accounts and be richer every day.
The last two weeks have been really hard for these people. Besides the daily problems that they have to affront, two hurricanes hit the islands. I was watching at CNN a couple of days ago and tears started coming out of my eyes when I saw was happening. There were dead people trapped by the flood. There were people fighting to get water. It was so bad that the UN has to take infantry in order to take control of the cities. And in the other side you have politicians in the congress of USA arguing if they should keep the embargo in Cuba. These people don’t know what is to be two days without food; they don’t know what is happening. How a person cans put international affairs in top of human necessity. They need help and they need it now. In days like this is when we know where are values are.