I was on facebook the other day and I came across a friends status. It was a status about what he had seen. He saw an old woman steal an umbrella out of the trunk of a car that had been in an accident and was abandoned on the side of the road. The post said that she tried the doors but they were all locked, all she got was the umbrella.
Out of the 11 comments on this status only 2 were not about how funny it was that she was stealing the umbrella out of a wrecked car. The very first comment was "how sad" and my comment was about how it was sad...the other 9 made it a joke.
What is funny about that picture? How is it a joke that anyone, especially an old lady, feels she has no option but to steal something from a wrecked car?
It could easily be you, your mother, your sister, your friend that is in the place in their life where they have to turn into a scavenger. No one "wants" to be put in that situation, but how many paychecks are you away from living on the street? What if your company closed up shop tomorrow? What would you do? Would you still be the one laughing?
You can't fix all the problems in the world. You can't solve world hunger or fix the unemployment problem in America. The thing that bothers me is that you don't want to.
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