This just isn't right
The other night, I had dinner with my mother at Cici’s Pizza. Cici’s is an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet, and it is pretty cheap. Sure, the pizza is far from great, but hey, $5 for all-you-can-eat. So I got a belly full, all the while complaining that the quality was just ok.
Enter today. I just saw something online that put me in my place.
Hungry people in the slums of Haiti are giving new meaning to the phrase “dirt poor.” As food prices soar, many desperate people are eating mud cookies to stave off their hunger pangs. Here, an 11-year-old boy named Cajeunes shows his dirt-streaked tongue after eating a mud cookie in Cite Soleil.
They are eating mud. Here I am complaining about an unending supply of pizza, and people are eating mud. Who the heck am I? Where do I get off even wishing that I had it better? I pray that I will never forget just how lucky I am, and that God will break my heart for these people.
Please read the full story of this problem. (via StevenBush.org)
this is not meant to be an insult but your country does really waste a lot. it’s a good thing you realized that you are indeed lucky. i, for one, needed to be reminded also because i like to complain… a lot and aloud!
I couldn’t agree with you more. We are very wasteful as a country, and I wish it were different.