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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Dear Occupy-ers.

You are pissed. I get it. Corporate America has more than you, and it is unfair. You can't find a job and that is really crappy. You live at or below the poverty line, struggling to make it work. I am NOT discrediting these as legitimate issues to be angry about. However....

925 million people do not have enough to eat  and 98 percent of them live in developing countries.

65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.

Under-nutrition contributes to five million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.

884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population.

2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population.

Did you use a toilet today? Did you get water that was safe to drink? Did you eat something? Is your child dying because of unsanitary conditions and lack of food and water? I think it is safe to say not. Is life hard, and times tough? YES. YES IT/THEY ARE. But count your blessings folks.  You are in America, where people don't tell you how to live. You worship who and how you want, you function in your life the way you chose, and for the most part you eat and drink when you are hungry. Politics and money and greed may be effed up, but all things considered, if you are reading this, you are doing pretty well. All I am really proposing is this: take the time you want to spend being pissed off and angry at corporations or people or whatever, and use it to remember and feel thanks for what you DO have. See if by nature that doesn't help change your perspective a bit.

Love Ya'll.