Insignificant

Nothing Matters. Honestly, nothing. I just had a huge fight with my sister with my parents input included about who should get the bigger room in our house. (I was just about to call our house 'small' but honestly it's not!) My parents kept reciting how many people would be happy to live in the smaller room with their entire families and it's true.. there are so many places in the world where the people have nothing. And honestly the only reason I didn't want the small room is because I finally had some power that I thought I could use. Turns out I didn't. I only didn't want to give up the big room, because I thought I had the choice. There is a whole back story involved in this that I won't get into, so I'm making myself sound like a bad guy.. I just don't want to write everything down.

I've heard before that people in Africa in their crowded little huts coming home from walking miles and hardly eating a thing are some of the happiest people. Some Americans or Canadians, can't remember which, were telling me that when they went to Africa these people shared what little they had with these strangers simply because they were company. These 'strangers' had so much money and these people had very little and yet the poor fed the rich. And were happy to do it.

Why are stupid things so important to us?

Maybe I'm just speaking about me and my family, but for us anyway it's hard to find perspective when we have everything we could ask for.

*Correction. Almost everything we could ask for. That's the problem. We can always think of more things to ask for and it's a never-ending cycle. Besides the media knows it and exploits that fact.

I don't really have a conclusion, but basically once this whole room thing happened and I lost the fight and my power I wanted to rage about it and swear and tear something apart and I knew it was stupid, but that didn't change my feelings about it. However, I didn't write a single thing down when I was angry, because I know that once something's on the internet you can't take it back and that usually makes things worse.

Regardless of anything else.. It's important to take a step back from everything and think about how lucky we truly are. Every last one of us. Even if you do live in a hut, which there's totally nothing wrong with..

Also, just wanted to clear something up. I don't think that Africa is all poverty.. nor do I think everyone in Africa lives in huts. There are some damn sweet houses in Africa that I think would be AMAZING to live in.. such as some tree houses and what not, but I am talking about whatever percent of people do live in poverty there in mud huts and don't have enough money to feed themselves everyday.

Africa being poor as a whole is a common misconception that I assume everyone knows, but sometimes realize people don't always know.