walking out of my house in the morning after a huge fight with my parents about going to cairo on that day i kept cursing and was fuming mad at my parents for everything.
in cairo we went and visited the Cancer Institute - where children who suffer from cancer are placed.
That's when you see how lucky you are - healthy, with a roof on your head, and you can afford treatment if anything bad happens, and you have a family.
Being completely cold during this 2 hour experience made me look bad to the other half a dozzen girls whose eyes teared up every 5 minutes. But that was beacuse i was seeing things with my mind not with my heart.
2 resolutions:
1) I am a lucky person - thank god for that
2) something needs to change in this country
at the end of that day we started talking about the state of the world presentations we always get in our first natconf in AIESEC - and this was the real version of it. in 30 minutes we were wandering in the Grand Hyatt Hotel looking for celebrities in a stinking rich place, which luckily most of us got to spend a couple of nights there before. then we moved on to the tragic part of the presentation - real life hits you.
On the way home everyone called their parents - and i sent mine an i love you sms - which this morning was not an option.
One last observation - the private and the public parts of the hospital were exactly opposite to oneanother , with stricking differences.
My pure capitalist views disregard that - we cannot dicriminate against the rich in favor for the poor.
but then again i cannot be heartless, we can surely help the poor get better services.
It all boils down to politics
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