Peptic ulcers of the world.
Sometimes I think that my posts are fraught, rightly so. Just today I had to see my doctor for complaints of retrosternal burning and epigastric pain that has been troubling me for a considerable time now. Looked like acid reflux to the doctor and she prescribed me two weeks of medications. The condition is supposed to be a result of stress and irregular eating habits. In most cases overeating contributes to the symptoms (not in my case though!). I came back from the clinic and sat in the common room just to watch another depressing documentary on BBC. It was about Ethiopian famine of 80's. It was a documentary made well and effectively, atleast in my case. I could never have imagined that hunger and famine can be so devastating and can shake the core of any society to this level. There were pictures of people either dying or dead everywhere. There were tears in the eyes of parents who had lost their final child finally at the hands of famine. Who was there to save these millions dying at the hands of hunger_initially no one! Only this one lady doctor from Medecins Sans Frontières who was there to help thousands of people single handedly. She was their god whose nod could mean provision of help for the much needy. I would say she was and is an angel. Then Michael Buerk from 6 o'clock news arrived and his news reports stirred alarm in the world of the rich and abundantly provisioned. Bob Geldof saw this report in his house at Chelsea and this stirred a spirit in him to help those who really needed help. Within a week it was a national movement. As Geldof says, there was "never a civic movement in history that was so rapidly assembled, so focused and determined, so attuned to the objective". The result of all this_ the ethiopian disaster was checked from spreading further damage. But even today 6 million Ethopians would die of hunger if world aid didn't reach them on regular basis. This statement makes me think whether we have done any good by averting the famine in the 80's or only delayed it to come back ever so devastatingly. We didn't solve Ethiopia's problem. In this world there are places where the major killer is obesity. Where food is so cheap that you can eat a piece and throw away the rest. and there are places where eternal famine resides.
I have come to realize that there is hope in humanity. If a lady doctor a news crew and a singer can do it anyone can do it. We only need to realize that it is not ourselves that matters but the good of the whole humanity. When I see that young lady doctor helping without help from anyone I wish I could be like her. Not because I wish I had similar fame but because when I saw her on TV today her face was calm and she had nothing to regret in her life nothing at all!
Sometimes I think that my posts are fraught, rightly so. Just today I had to see my doctor for complaints of retrosternal burning and epigastric pain that has been troubling me for a considerable time now. Looked like acid reflux to the doctor and she prescribed me two weeks of medications. The condition is supposed to be a result of stress and irregular eating habits. In most cases overeating contributes to the symptoms (not in my case though!). I came back from the clinic and sat in the common room just to watch another depressing documentary on BBC. It was about Ethiopian famine of 80's. It was a documentary made well and effectively, atleast in my case. I could never have imagined that hunger and famine can be so devastating and can shake the core of any society to this level. There were pictures of people either dying or dead everywhere. There were tears in the eyes of parents who had lost their final child finally at the hands of famine. Who was there to save these millions dying at the hands of hunger_initially no one! Only this one lady doctor from Medecins Sans Frontières who was there to help thousands of people single handedly. She was their god whose nod could mean provision of help for the much needy. I would say she was and is an angel. Then Michael Buerk from 6 o'clock news arrived and his news reports stirred alarm in the world of the rich and abundantly provisioned. Bob Geldof saw this report in his house at Chelsea and this stirred a spirit in him to help those who really needed help. Within a week it was a national movement. As Geldof says, there was "never a civic movement in history that was so rapidly assembled, so focused and determined, so attuned to the objective". The result of all this_ the ethiopian disaster was checked from spreading further damage. But even today 6 million Ethopians would die of hunger if world aid didn't reach them on regular basis. This statement makes me think whether we have done any good by averting the famine in the 80's or only delayed it to come back ever so devastatingly. We didn't solve Ethiopia's problem. In this world there are places where the major killer is obesity. Where food is so cheap that you can eat a piece and throw away the rest. and there are places where eternal famine resides.
I have come to realize that there is hope in humanity. If a lady doctor a news crew and a singer can do it anyone can do it. We only need to realize that it is not ourselves that matters but the good of the whole humanity. When I see that young lady doctor helping without help from anyone I wish I could be like her. Not because I wish I had similar fame but because when I saw her on TV today her face was calm and she had nothing to regret in her life nothing at all!
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