Isn't this the saddest thing?

Question

This was a scene from an overseas vacation that i took several years back. I remember thinking, wow what a beautiful country. Everyone is happy, no one is really suffering. Then I as accidentally taken into the slums. You see, the suffering had been hidden beneath all of the fake smiles and artificial faces.There was disease and hunger everywhere..children standing in broken-down doorways, barely covered, faces dirty, skinny as sticks, eyes protruding oddly. Little girls holding baby siblings, taking care of them because mom and dad died from disease and hunger. Old men and women collapsed hoplessly in a heap next to piles of garbage because they have lost ability to walk and don't have enough to buy a cane: they have lost their freedom. Coughing and weeping, children screaming. I can still see this scene in my head clearly as if it were before me now. It makes me cry thinking about it.

i don't think this only exists overseas. i am simply recounting one of my experiences.

Answer 1

Wow, see society covers the depression of people by putting fake imagines in our minds. There are so many people that we need to help, to feed, to cloth. We have to all try to help to make a big difference in our world.

Just a step at a time.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, most third world countries have this same scene. It makes me cringe to think that nobody cars about their situation in their own country. I was in Manila once and was taken to wear MacArthur used to stay when he was there. It was a hotel room with a butler and kitchen and you could see the ocean. Cost was $1,000 a night. Just a block away was one of the poorest sections of Manila. Open Sewers running down the street, metal shacks, children begging. I couldn't understand how anyone could live in such luxury with all that poverty staring you in the face. Shame on anyone who can see this and not want to help or be torn up inside.

Answer 3

Yes it is very sad. ANd not only does that same type of stuff take place over here, you could have EASILYbeen describi9ng several locations IN America...Detroit, NYC, Houston, etc. So sad, yet so true.

Answer 4

Wow. Hearing things like that make me feel really lucky to have what I have. My mom died, my cousins in Iraq, my cousins and grandparents house burnt down in San Diego but I guess that doesn't compare.

Answer 5

sad yes but focus on the suffering where you live first before trying to make a difference elsewhere. I am sure there is plenty of suffering in whatever city you live in.

Answer 6

Every country has slums, even the USA. People go hungry in every country in the world, even the USA. People go without medical care, even in the richest countries in the world.

Answer 7

this is very detailed..you should write a book. i saw the same thing when i was visiting west africa..it was heartbreaking..but i realized i didnt have enuff cash to keep giving to all of them. i saw a dead body on the street that nobody cared to move..they just walked past it without noticing. it makes u want to make a difference, right?

Answer 8

That's life. I know this sounds horrible, but just be glad it's not yours.
(have travelled in many countries and seen things that I want to forget too)

Answer 9

o.0

Answer 10

thats kinda sad