People don’t realize what they have
I have a problem with people’s ingratitude.
That’s probably why I get so irritated with people who’ve never lived in NYC in the 70s-90s and miss the “gritter days.”
It’s easy for them to miss something they romanticize in their heads.
Me? I look at the ability to walk down the street and not be concerned about getting shanked a gift.
Speaking of gifts, after 9/11, people around the world sent their condolences and … stuff. Nations flew their flags at half-mast, dignitaries cried. What one might expect.
But a small tribe of Masai warriors in remote Kenya also heard about 9/11. Most had not even seen a plane before and couldn’t fathom buildings that tall. But they understood the magnitude of what had happened.
And so these incredibly poor people – “poor” in our economic understanding of the word – sent the United States 14 cows.
For the Masai people, cows are everything. They are, in fact, the single symbol of wealth as their entire culture revolves around cattle.
In any case, these 14 cows were accepted by the US but cared for in Africa – along with a reverse donation from the US of scholarships for the children there.
They’re still there, now numbering 35 or so.
I can only assume that the American ambassador that was given these animals realized that he was given treasure. Things that these people had worked for their whole lives.
Wonder what would’ve happened if the Ambassador didn’t realize what he’d been given and instead thought he was just being given a random buncha dirty animals.
It bothers me when people are given treasure and do nothing but complain about how it’s not good enough.
A 30 year-old man here in NYC just allegedly killed his father because he wanted more allowance.
People don’t see what they have – often through sheer dumb luck – they only see what they think the don’t have.
They possess treasure but no understanding that they do.
I wrote this entry before I turned on news today.
Gunmen broke into an office building in Paris and executed a number of people including a wounded police officer.
It’s a scary world we live in today.
Location: in front of a large cuppa joe
Mood: sad
Music: I guess we thought that’s just what humans do
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