Have you ever taken some time to read about poverty or liberty? Have you ever seen a movie about India, Africa or other countries where poverty is famine and liberty can only be inner because they are trapped in a structure of power and control?

"A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic and increased mortality. Although many famines coincide with national or regional shortages of food, famine has also occurred amid plenty or on account of acts of economic or military policy that have deprived certain populations of sufficient food to ensure survival. Historically, famines have occurred because of drought, crop failure and pestilence, and because of man-made causes such as war or misguided economic policies. During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom fully 30 million died during the famine of 1958-61 in China. The other most terrible famines of the century included the 1942-1945 disaster in Bengal, famines in China in 1928 and 1942, and a sequence of man-made famines in the Soviet Union, including the Holodomor, Stalin's famine inflicted on Ukraine in 1932-33. The last great famines of the 20th century were the disaster in Cambodia in the 1970s, the Ethiopian famine of 1983-85 and the North Korean famine of the 1990s"¹

My question is.... Have you ever appreciated the country you live in? The kind of privilege you have every day because you can eat almost whatever you can if you have saved enough money to buy it and we have the liberty to do so?

It could be a chocolate or a cookie. Many people are not as fortunate. If we took some time to admire our reality, our country, and our people... Perhaps, our reality could become peaceful and fulfilled.

One of the reasons we live with violence and self-depreciation is the lack of compassion and love toward others and oneself. I am not talking about egoism. Egoism is the lack of love toward oneself and others.

Why? If I really love myself I could see that love makes me feel "wow", and so loving others makes me feel so happy and fulfilled.

Egoism brings sadness, loneliness, and bitterness. Why? Others is us. How is that possible? If we could stop our inner dilalogue for just a little, and take time to admire our surroundings we could see there is no difference between what I eat and who I am.

Plain physics? I eat an apple. The apple becomes me or do I become the apple?

Better yet, I don't become an apple and the apple doesn't become me because we are already the universe. Are we sensible enough to see that or have we lost it?

Yes, we can see it. We still have mountains, lakes, rivers, oceans, prairies, animals, chocolates, pineapples, mangoes, and a beautiful world. Do we want to destroy who we are?

I am sure we don't because we can't live without the mountains, lakes, rivers, oceans, prairies, animals, chocolates, pineapples, mangoes, and this wonder world.

We are living in a society full of "I AM WHO MY MEMORIES TELL ME I AM".

It is o.k if that's what you believe is best because you have taken time to analyze yourself and conclude egoism is good, famine is good if it is not yours, imprisonment of the body is good because you are free although others may be trapped, and living without the wonder world is good because you will live a rich life...

But I can bet, you haven't found the truth joy of life, but simply a treat that is keeping you entertained in life.

Please, don't make others pay our acts of self-destruction because when we contaminate, it is not killing just us, but everything that surrounds us.

Take as an example smoking, those who die first may not be the smoker, but the little daughter that spends her time with her dad.

Please, let her live... Let us live. Let us have a wonder future before it is too late for us to correct what adults have done.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine