kari-shma:

Ephemeral (by moaan)

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kari-shma:

Sunlight Of The Soul (by moaan)

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moneyisnotimportant:

33 Ways to Stay Creative

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whataw0nderfulw0rld:

holy fuuuck

neeekaai:

Boy : My heart hurts , 

Girl : Why ?

Boy : Cos’ its been crying out for you but you cant hear it ..

Girl : ( * Listens to heart beat )

Boy : Do you hear it ?

Boy : Do you hear it telling you ..

Girl : I love you too ..

Boy : ( * Smiles )

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This little child in the picture had taught me so much within one week, even more than books. I visited an orphanage during my mission trip to Honduras, and there I made a realization that I am very fortunate to be living in a modernized country. These little children were lacking a proper education, healthcare, opportunities to implement their creativities,  and a chance to live their childhood. Although they were put in school, but the education system in Honduras is poorly developed, hence, the kids do not gain much knowledge through school. This made me realize that I am such a fool for complaining about school and hearing people made excuses for not studying. We are so fortunate that we do not understand how valuable education is to other people on the other side of the world. They desire for a good school system so that they too can be educated like every other child on this planet. 

They also seek for a good healthcare so that they would not get deadly diseases like malaria or unwanted pregnancy. Children in Honduras can get pregnant as early as 16 years old and are mostly infected by malaria and parasites. It is a tragedy to see the type of environment they live in because it is nothing better than a shack near a garbage dump. However, those kids appreciate their living space more than anything, yet we tend to complain how small our house is or how a certain place is not clean. Think again. Because of this filthy environment, people over there tend to be infected by many diseases and hence reduced their survival rates. If they were given more doctors and hospitals or even healthcare education, they would be able to prevent these diseases and/or know the possible cures for it.

Besides lacking the necessities, the children do not have a place that allow them to express their creativities and talents. Girls can braid your hair very nicely and boys can build stuff efficiently. However, they could only do these stuff within their village/town and never have the chance to show case their talents to the country. Here in the US, there are always opportunities for us to show our work to the public and use our talents to make an impact in other people’s lives. If they were to have such opportunities, they would be more inclined to learn and feel more connected to everyone.

Since they were young, these children were trained to work like an adult, and therefore, never had the chance to live their childhood fully. One girl showed me what she had to do on a daily basis. She was only 10 years old and she had to do laundry by hands, cook for her family, and take care of their siblings. I remembered as a 10 year old, I did not have the skills to do most of the things listed above. I had the pleasure of being fed, room cleaned by my mother, and never had to worry about helping my parents work. This made me realized how spoil of a child I was and how lucky I was to have free time to hang out with friends, be a girl, and simply live my childhood.

Having the chance to hang around these children, I was able to see for myself how happy these kids are regardless of the poor conditions they are living in. I learned how to appreciate more of the condition I am living in because if those children can put a smile on their face with minimal living conditions, I should be able to smile back to these children and hopefully one day be able to give back to them.