Posted by 3Dee on August 8, 2011, 1:50 pm, in reply to "Sad"
I heard this on the radio and was saddened as well.
I think to myself how much I have spent over the years on trying NOT to eat..and trying to exercise, and occasionally spending more to get the weight off.
What an obscene paradox...just thinking about it.
I don't consider myself a huge person, but not the thin person you pictured me to be with sandy hair, working in a beauty shop (perhaps being the only male stylist?).)
But all the same... It's obscene to think that I'm spending money to take off weight from time to time. Yet people are starving to death.
I think next time I'm tempted for a salty snack...it should be $4.00 for bread for the world, food for the poor..or whomever, to cover the cost of those chips...or if I want to go to Jack in the Box...put $8 in the fund and skip the trip to Jack in the Box...etc.
I thought about these expensive meal replacements...heat up the food they give me.
I just refuse to do it. I know I can take off weight...but how can I sit there paying $400 a month knowing that someone else across the world is starving to death.
News stories like this cause me some serious soul searching...and really disturb me into looking at taking inventory of what I do have, and asking why someone else is dying right now.
It makes me sad and disturbed....and yet even if I gave up a lot of things and dropped a couple hundreds to the cause..it's the feeling that YES it will help...but no the problem won't go away.
No matter what I can or will do...I am helpless to the fact that the problem is not going away anytime soon.
on August 8, 2011, 1:50 pm, in reply to "