Live 8

I just tuned into Live 8, forgot to watch most of it. Caught a bit near the end, had Will Smith talking to everybody, the crowds across the world, and it was actually inspiring. To see millions of people around the world cheering to wipe out poverty, to save everybody. It really was. And he talked about getting the world leaders today to abolish their debts so that we could use that money to save people in the poorer countries of the world. And I thought about it, the fact that we actually could make poverty history, abolish it for good. Just the fact that the potential is there is incredible, let alone the thought that at last it could actually happen. Sure, it won't happen overnight, but it could. We could actually finally get this world back into shape. It's an incredible thought.

I really hope it can happen. It can be changed. That's a fact. But it has to be done, it has to take a while and countries (and a lot of people who live in them) have to stop being greedy and let it happen.

I was thinking about a world where there was no poverty. It would be incredible. One where, in, say twenty years, Africa is in the same breath as the United States, for example. A world where we are literally equal, there is no third world and everybody really is equal. I doubt it'll ever happen, it just can't, there's too many greedy and selfish people in the world. I mean, a lot of countries have people fleeing because of the way people are treated, and throwing money at the goverment of those countries wont help, but it is a dream, and one that we might one day achieve.

I sound kinda preachy, huh? I was just saying what I thought. I really hope it does happen. I hope one day we can all feel free in the world, knowing that people aren't suffering elsewhere. I hope it happens. I really do.