Some people do this ..
Children from Kenya pan for flakes of gold which helps sustain their families.
…so other people can do this..
A man holds a spoon full of gold leaf, ready to eat it with his sushi in west London.
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“How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?”
At what point do you accept how unfair this life is, and at what point is it sane to fight the idea, even if you just fight it with yourself?
Pictures and captions from my new best friend > The big picture.
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January 27, 2010 at 2:17 am
Shmal
Every day that we live, is an acceptance that life is unfair. You wake up from your comfortable, medical mattress and drink water and have an egg omelet, you accept that others wake up and have nothing but oxygen, not even clean oxygen. Every day that we wake up and carry on our “monotonous” life, we accept that as hard as we fight for the equality of human, using the man upstairs as an excuse to every day, lose that fight.
January 27, 2010 at 2:22 am
Dee
as long as they want us to live for him and by him, believing in his justice and that he is love and life, people will continue to blame him, once everyone understands that you and only you control your life then we will blame ourselves and maybe just maybe try to fix things..
January 27, 2010 at 5:17 am
jaraad
Whether we believe life is fair or unfair it doesn’t matter, it will change nothing in our lives. But, what matter is that we need to know that life is difficult. Therefore, we need to work hard.
Big picture is the best. I check it almost everyday. I love it.
January 27, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Dee
Yes on a personal level it doesn’t matter that’s true, but thank God for the few out there who make it matter, otherwise i think things will be even worse than they are now. 🙂 Thanks for your comment jaraad 🙂
January 27, 2010 at 11:19 am
darya
Dee… i believe things are much more complicated than the matter of one gaining control of his or her life… the problem here is that the majority of underpreviligied people dont know any better and never experienced any better and probably dont know that there a different world out there.. they only can dream and hope for a better unknown future and probably this future is what makes them belive in the man upstairs! they rely on him and his justice.. they rely on him to save them and give them their dreams, hence they endure all this injustice…
January 27, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Dee
In this time darya i doubt the underprivileged don’t know what’s out there. And when you see for yourself what people ten minutes away from our clean, comfortable and warm houses live like you feel like shit believe me. At times i’ve felt guilty for leading the life i do and pretending everyone else is fine as well. Relying on God to make things better will never make things better unless we get off our asses and do something for ourselves and the people around us, maybe then God will help in making things easier, but he sure won’t put a roof over anyone’s head if we sit and just rely on him. Thanks for commenting girl 🙂
January 27, 2010 at 11:24 am
Haitham
Way to go Dee, now that is the spirit =D
January 27, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Dee
Didn’t i tell you it’s all happy things from now on hehehe :p
January 27, 2010 at 2:54 pm
kinziblogs
Life isn’t fair, it never will be. Understanding that helps you get out from under the impossible burden of taking responsibility to make it ‘fair’.
I don’t believe anywhere is scripture it says that God is fair, either. But He is good, and He is just. His justice and mercy are equally yolked. We must take responsibility for establishing justice, but ‘fairness’ is an elusive dream. I am sure He weeps over images such as this. He will repay.s
It is the injustice of man that sends us running to His Creator for the strength and wisdom to change what we can, and the wisdom to know the difference between what we can and can’t. Rest in the peace that passes all understanding, little sister 🙂
January 27, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Dee
Aunty kinzi thanks for commenting :). I know very well that life is not fair, but one thing i don’t like is when people say that it will be fair at one time, after death maybe, because i’d sure like it to be fair now hehe. And i only hope that we were given the brains and will power to change everything into the better if we only just try. 🙂
January 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Mido
There’s nothing new about the fact that the world we live in is a round ball of crap. But what keeps us going on, living the life we were given is hope, hope can drive you crazy, holding onto it for so long. But i’ll stick to the thought that it can bring good in the end.
January 27, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Dee
Some people go by their days hoping for things and some go for them. At one point you have to do the later :). thanks for commenting mido :).
January 27, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Issa
I love how all the readers now care about the little children to the point where they drop big abstract words: “Justice” “God” “Responsibility” “Unfair” “Hard Life” “Keep Going” “Wisdom” “Work Hard”….
Give me a break you guys . First let me start by saying that I would’ve loved to have been there and try sushi from the hands of “The Seven Sushi Samurai” sushi masters. Second can you honestly say that you care about children from Kenya ? I mean really care, I don’t mean -look at the picture, feel sad for 4 minutes then go eat sushi- care , I mean -try to help them- care . I the hell don’t !
And quit stating the obvious, will you ; “Life is not fair” ? oh really ? I’m shocked ! But then who am I to want a real argument ? And who am I to criticize other people’s podium speeches ?
Here is some abstract for you : “Keep it real , nobody likes the pretentious”
January 27, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Dee
First off do you seriously want to eat gold? ino laish ya3ni? iza sushi la7alo ok but this particular one, i just find it odd that people are using things for other purposes than the ones we’re used to.
Now about me caring for Kenyan kids bil ta7deed no, it’s just something i saw and the pictures were right next to each other on the original post that it just simply looked wrong to me. Like i said a number of times now if each only cares for his/ her neighborhood/community things will be at least a tiny bit better. Now if you’re asking me personally if i try to help well as of new i am trying (as little as it may be) not to help the Kenyans no but to help families over here that have it just as bad.
Yes people will state the obvious all the time i guess they think not everyone knows that but it happens. This post was not meant to get answers, millions of people over thousands of years tried to get answers i’m not sure one of the say ten readers i have has the answer lol but maybe just maybe it’ll get one of them to get up to their closet gather all the clothes they haven’t worn in the past ten years, put them in a bag and go down the road to that guy who always asks for help but they ignore and give it to them, a spur of the moment thing you know. I truly can’t think of anything easier than that, but for the ones who might actually want to really help volunteer organizations m3abyeen il balad. W thanks for commenting. 🙂
January 29, 2010 at 3:15 pm
kinziblogs
Dee, welcome, I just want to make sure you don’t succomb to despair so young. Sometimes anger at lack of justice paralyzes us from the action we can be a part of.
Issa, I was addressing Dee’s last phrase. I would never eat ‘gold sushi’, and think through the ramifications of what I buy and who gets stepped on as a result of my purchasing habits.
Sounds like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
January 29, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Dee
No i won’t succumb to despair anytime soon hehe, i’m trying to be part of anything, but it does get to you at times :(.
January 29, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Laith M.
Do you think those children in Kynia or any other place are any better than the person who’s eating gold in God knows where?
All human beings are as evil as the other, we would eat our own children if we get hungry, a “child” in Kynia if ever had the chance to get a gun would kill all his friends and steal their gold, the same thoughts of greed and hate Bush has, they have. And I believe the inner thoughts of both gold digging kids and gold eating people are the same, and as filthy as it gets.
Stop blaming God, or those who seek God, at least we know our screwed natures and want to get back to our true nature that God created us through, the nature of, yes, true love.
Human beings did this to their own selves. God did not choose this, it is people’s choice… and their choices can change their reality.
January 29, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Dee
yes laith we’re all evil from the sense that we all sin, except some of those who sin will eat sushi with gold whatever and some will be digging for that gold. See what i mean? I will be writing a post about my thoughts on this later cause comments ma binfa3.
January 29, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Issa
So Dee and kinziblogs what you’re telling me is that if one of your friends came and told you : “Guys !! I won the prize for being the 10,000th caller on a radio show and I have won 3 tickets to London as well as an invitation for 3 people to have the best sushi in the world ; in the international ‘Masters of Sushi’ competition where “The Seven Sushi Samurai” who are the best sushi prepare artists compete . And I heard that even one of them will prepare sushi with gold in it !!!” … you’ll go :
a. <> so take somebody else *Hero stance*
b. <> but I’ll come and eat normal equally exotic sushi
c. <> but wait till I get my head out of my ass , because I’m using gold everyday in microchips, accessories, medicine etc …. and it came from the same place as the one that people are eating , and the percentage of eaten gold is 0.0001% of non-accessory gold and even less if you count accessories ! and if I wanted to really make a difference I’ll stop using the 99.9999%
d. deflect by telling him that he woke up on a different side of the bed from the one you wanted him to have woken up on.
I’m not trying to “win” the argument even if my smart ass expression method implies otherwise … I just spoke my mind before … without any filters …
cheers
January 29, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Issa
= “I would never eat ‘gold sushi’, and think through the ramifications of what I buy and who gets stepped on as a result of my purchasing habits.”
January 29, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Dee
i would actually go, wouldn’t eat the sushi with gold because i don’t think gold is for eating, would eat normal sushi though. I am personally not one to love/buy gold, maybe cause i’m only 20, but maybe cause i think it’s dumb to waste money on something that i can buy for so much cheaper just because it’s gold, humans gave it more value than other things and that really means nothing to me. I personally think that my head is out of my ass thank you very much, I know my bed cover might be made by 13 year olds somewhere out there and i bought it bas il sha’3leh bil 3agel fi ishi you need w ishi fazlakeh, and this particular picture is fazlakeh, but then again my entire point is NOT this picture, my point is do you give up: the world is not fair and nothing i can do will help OR do you try and help: the world is not fair but i can help a person or two.
January 30, 2010 at 9:37 am
Issa
All I’m saying is : I don’t believe that you care , I believe that you WANT to care and that’s totally different , prove me wrong by helping these kids 🙂
–execute ” the world is not fair but i can help a person or two.”
January 31, 2010 at 1:20 am
Dee
What, need a list of what i’ve done to help? What else don’t i care about since you know everything ya3ni? And whatever i do sure won’t be to prove you wrong akeed. It’s kind of offensive to go up to a person you don’t know and tell them you don’t believe they care, i am not posting to prove to YOU or anyone that i care, i am posting because i want to, period. Maybe one day i’ll send you a private email showing you how i care. 🙂
January 31, 2010 at 10:06 am
Issa
I appreciate you honesty in telling me off , good luck with your blog
February 1, 2010 at 2:09 am
Dee
hmm sent you that private email i promised. you’re still checking the blog every few hours (sorry for invading you’re privacy) so i’m hoping you saw the email 🙂