In retrospect, the complaining I've been doing about what I supposedly don't have or didn't do is nothing compared to what 80% of the people in Haiti are dealing with. I feel ashamed that I have not consistently remained grateful and upbeat about my environment.
Poverty in the Haiti is no comparison to what we consider poverty in America. People fail to realize that as bad as we want to portray our government, the sitting president and the political games as money hungry, narcissistic, liars (which they can be), we still have it pretty good here.
And when all this humanitarian effort has gone weeks after the initial outpouring of generosity from the international community, Haiti will still be the poorest nation, the size of Maryland with roughly 10 million people in the Western Hemisphere.
And we will all go back to our lives, working, paying bills, and complaining.
Yea, but if you were living in Haiti, you would probably be complaining about the same things that you do in the US - lousy social services, lying leaders, the race for money, etc. Of course Haiti has these problems to a different degree, but the US is supposed to be the big sister of the Americas. And if things don't work they way the should in the US, it is all the more disappointing because of the US's legacy of being the land of opportunity for many of us who moved there. Hope all's well with the fam' there, by the way...
ReplyDeleteYes, I would be complaining and I am disappointed at the ways things play out internationally especially with Haiti. The legacy is lost when Haitians are still trying to emigrate here but have to wait 10-15 years while citizens of European nations have easier access.
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