ok so i really just feel like freaking out and like being semi-intelligent
this could get ugly. haha!
ok so about this hurrican stuff. for now im going to leave the gas prices and all that. this is just about......w/e i want it to be about. but not gas prices yet. lol
SO today i was at rickys and i was watching the news, and ive BEEN watching the news but this REALLY got to me. it showed the ppl that were outside of the convention center and, had i not have been watching and KNOWN where it was i would have thought it was in a third world country or something
there were ppl DYING right there, with a camera in their face DYING bc of this. bc they couldnt get help. its about to start raining again and thses ppl have no shelter. there was no one out there helping them. no police, no red cross, NO ONE. it was them and them only. it was almost like they were isolated from the rest of the country or something. they were trying to break into buildings to go inside bc of the rain. there were women with babies crying, sreaming BEGGING for someone to help them!
this was in america
these were americans
our ppl. us.
those were our friends, our family, our neighbors. that was us, in the streets, trying to help out a complete stranger right next to us bc she doesnt have her heart medicine and no doctor will see her. that was you, that was me.
these ppl are literally left with NOTHING! they have the clothes on their backs and that is absolutely it. and yes, the ppl who are staying with family right now and having nothing, they are sad too, and i weep for them as much as i weep for these ppl. but atleast they have a roof oever their head. the ppl i saw on tv today didnt even have that. and i feel like there is pretty much nothing i can do. I cant even begin to count how many times ive already cried for those ppl, and prayed, and i will continue, but i really wish i could do more. i have no money to give, ill bring food to school and stuff but it wont go to those ppl. they know thats where they will die. and woman said it.
a cop drove by on the tv and just honked the horn for ppl to get out of the way. what kinda of a country have we become? where we rush to help ppl from the tsunami but we honk and cuss at our own wen we drive through??
how desperate must these ppl feel right now? one day they were just like us. going to the grocery store, talking on the phone, the next we are fighting for our lives and sleeping in the streets by ourselves bc our family died.
i cant put enough emphasis on the fact that these are americans!!! they havent always lived like this, in poverty. i guarantee some of them had money, i mean like a good bit of it. and now theres nothing, and they are left to fin for themselves while our goverment says that we should STOP the search and rescue bc of ppl stealing and all that.
STOP the search and rescue
whether we see it here or not, everything is chaos. we have our own ppl dying in the streets, one of our magor ports is shut down for a very very very long time if not forever, gas prices are unbelievably high causing ppl to practically go into fits, hold ppl at gun point, and steal from their neighbors, and yet we can sit back and pretend like nothing is going on
live our lives normally. ive really grown up today. i saw something that i will NEVER forget, and i pray to god that those people get the help they deserve. even tho im almost sure that they wont.
god bless america. we need it right now.
this is for those poor people. pray for them.
Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain And ironing out the rough spots Is the hardest part when memories remain And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio `Cause from the lips of some old singer We can share the troubles we already know
Turn them on, turn them on Turn on those sad songs When all hope is gone Why don't you tune in and turn them on
They reach into your room Just feel their gentle touch When all hope is gone Sad songs say so much
If someone else is suffering enough to write it down When every single word makes sense Then it's easier to have those songs around The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you and it feels so good to hurt so bad And suffer just enough to sing the blues
Sad songs, they say Sad songs, they say Sad songs, they say Sad songs, they say so much
-elton john "sad songs" |