poopy

Ok, so this class I'm taking during winter term, gender and global leadership, is depressing me. Everything we talk about is just so awful, about how the big nations exploit the poor ones, how its impossible for these poor nations to get out of debt. And then theres human trafficing for labor, sex, slavery. i don't like it. I feel bad for being born here, for having these privliges that others don't just because i was born in the US. I feel guilty, almost.
sigh.
sad.
and then i feel even worse because i call up alex sad and upset complaing about how the world sucks and people, children, are dieing that shouldn't, and then i depress him. and i don't like depressing people! i'm a happy person! i like to be happy! but i can't just dismiss these issues because they make me uncomfortable. but at the same time i don't want to walk around moping for the rest of my life. i want to help. i try to help. i just feel like its not enough. i know that its not enough. poop.

public service anouncement
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/multimedia.html

be apart of the solution
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=iuI1LdP0G&b=45523
http://www.madre.org/

i really hope that i didn't depress you, and i'm sorry if i did. but i think if more people are aware of the situation and donate a little time or money towards the cause, the world will be less depressing for everybody.

i promise to try not to mope.
heres to making the world a better place!