Every 24 hours you or I live we might sleep, work, play, eat, rest, cry, laugh, smile, talk, and go through a million thoughts, random events and contemplate the meaning of life.
In the time it takes for us to brush our teeth the world may end or begin for someone out there..
In the time it takes me to get across the city to my place of work. People have died, been killed, for money, for power, for something
worth killing.
We read in numbers in the news papers, in numbers formed by humans for humans. Numbers with value. One hundred dollars, A million Euros and 10 million Rupees.
60 minutes and while I sat in my car listening to my favourite song a woman somewhere was being
raped. A woman just like the women I know.
Just like the women I in my life that I love she was beautiful, sexy, sweet and caring.. a woman.. Being raped.. Overpowered and taken. Hatefully swallowed into a pain only she and others like her will know. All this while I listened to the DJ bitch about my favourite song and I was pissed off that the commercial cut in half way through. She cried called out for help and I, I didn't hear her. I was too busy with my 4 minute song. Now she lies in a corner almost dead, wishing she were dead.
Two hours gone by with nothing interesting in my day.. its just the same old grind I say.
Not for the little boy who didn't know what was happening to him, fondled, been sodomized. He cannot speak of it because he is too
afraid. A girl too young bleeds because a man has had no mercy.
My day is still the same with my routine work and a call to my friends trying to get everyone together for a party. Yeah lets all
party! Two children a girl a boy. The party ended for them, today.
6 hours and a quarter of my day has gone.. I am alive and well. 3000 new HIV infected individuals. If you are going to fuck.. Wear a condom it saves lives. 2250 People dead due AIDS and 360 of them are children under the age of 15. I am 24 this year.
AIDS has only been something I read about.
12 hours and Its evening. Over 2500 girls between 5 and 15 have been sold into the sex trade so far. Another 2500 by the end of the day. She was sold to strip naked before strangers who will touch her with vulgar intent. Contort her child like body, disfigure it and grow her into a woman in a manner of minutes. She was a seven year old girl, she is a seven year old woman. Read the numbers, these numbers have value.
She is worth a grand 7 billion Dollars every year... Maybe we can save her?
15 hours and over 15000 people have died due to starvation and the majority are children.
In the 15 minutes it took me to drink a milkshake and not be satisfied with its taste 260 people died without food to save their lives and around 220 of them would have been kids.
Sleep and 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86400 seconds gone by.
Every 20 minutes another species is pushed to extinction. Gone forever.. Never To return.
Today we have lost 72 unique species of this world. We humans have killed it. Animals with a right to this world just as much as us humans do. We are killing them. Just like we are killing ourselves. I have heard that roughly 1% of the species on this planet go extinct every year...it is a crime. I helped to kill them.. I am to blame.
In the 24 hours we live, children are born and some die at birth. Some mothers die giving birth to their children. Somebody's father mother brother sister daughter or son will die. Either on the battlefield or on a road somewhere. Killed by a road accident or a violent crime. Of old age or of illness terminal or not and suicide. Death and suffering, pain and hurt around us. Among us, the person to the right or left of us.
Statistics, If you are alive in 24 hours, realize you are better off than someone else out there. If you wake up tomorrow 25000 people didn't because an empty stomach killed them.
Fuck this..
why Should I care...
