Care

It was ignorance that made me huff and turn away. This train of thought that was shutting out the other half of the world. He said "should I feel obliged to help other people? Aren't there equally important problems in our own country?" I wanted to punch him in the face. This man at work who is usually a goofball anyway was putting his opinion on the table and had absolutely nothing to back it up with and ever bit of ignorance to highlight it with. I could have screamed, but it's not just him. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think like him, and though his opinion/ statement made my blood boil, he posed a significant question that needs to be pondered about in hard thought. "should I feel obliged to help other people?" especially if those people fall under the radar and are hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Of course it matters. What if it were you?  a friend? a brother? sister? What if you woke up surrounded by hundreds of starving, shaking, crying, confused children who had been kidnapped and there was not a sound to be made about it? Care. If you haven't seen the video, here it is. Yes, you have the right to an opinion, in fact, criticisms are already appearing in the comment section of youtube. You have the right to think like the host at my work. But, the video does make a good point: if this were happening in New York or Paris, it'd be all over the cover of every magazine in print today. Everywhere. You have the responsibility as a living, breathing, feeling human being to care for the suffering. You have the  duty to reach out in any small or large way that you are able. This cause is not asking you to feel guilty about your every day life, it's asking you to help, to care, to see, to know, to spread, and to make Joseph Kony famous. If too many people have the attitude of see, hear, speak no evil, then we are all screwed. How can we expect a better tomorrow for ourselves if we don't give a shit about their tomorrow? It's a big world, so we better buck up.