Hello…

I got an email with a title, saying “Hello”, it was about the World Hello Day.
I have never heard about World Hello Day, but it happens every year on Nov 21. 
It started about 35 years ago because of the conflict between Israel and Egypt.

It is a day for us to express and concern about world peace. 
It starts with a simple greeting to people or having activities or sending messages to people.

The root of conflict usually starts with people who don’t know each other or don’t understand each other.
Indeed, the World Hello Day is for the world peace, but I think it is important for people in this century as well.
It seems that more violent cases or bullying happening in families or in schools, and it seems that we don’t have talk to each other face to face or concern about others anymore because of the technology that we can select who we want or don’t want to talk to.  It is interesting from research showing that younger generations are not that interested about the community they live in now.

It is also fascinating that the culture that happens in university, people walk down the hallway (without stopping), saying “What’s up?”, “Hi!”, “How are you?” to people they know.  So, I always wonder, do you really mean you really what to know how am I doing or care about me?  Because you just seem you are not intended to stop and really want to have a little chat or catch up at all.

Is it we are too busy? or people nowadays just do not care about others at all.

Isn’t it nice to start saying “Hi!”, “How are you?” to strangers or neighbours? or even the smallest step, say it to your family when you wake up everyday in the morning. Or even just smile to people.

Link: http://www.worldhelloday.org/                                                                                                                                         

A little thought…

Chatted with some friends last night, a funny thought or a conclusion came out from our conversation.

He actually, simply described human life in a few sentences.

~When we were babies, we are put into the day-care centre.
And when we aged, we were sent to the senior/nursing house.~

Some people may disagree or say you are not treating your children/parent well because you put them in one of those places. 
However, I guess our generation may be so used to this kind of lifestyle that, we were put into day-care by our parent, and when our parent aged, guess what, we just do the same to them, but just putting into senior/nursing house instead of the day care only.

We are constantly put in some places that have four walls and isolated from our close ones.
The boomers nowadays have lots of burden on their shoulders, like a “sandwiches” that they have elderly above them and children below them.  They are way too “busy” with their own lives that they could not take care any of them. 

Question to think about is:
- Is there anything more important than your family?
- How were the previous generations deal with this, when no day care/nursing home existed?
- Is it the correct way to treat your parents who are aging?

                                                                                                      

*p.s. personally, I dislike those two places; because first, I worked in those two places, and secondly I just don’t like to be separated from my family members at al.

Do the poor need us or we need the poor?

How much you can do with one pair of hands?
I can think a lot of things that relate to a pair of hands.

I went to a friend’s presentation about her volunteer work in Africa.

“Do the poor need us or we need the poor?”
It is not the first time I heard people mentioned this question in their presentations.

Sometimes, I think that the poor people (or people who live in undeveloped countries) do not need us at all, because the values and things we have in the Western societies/developed countries are not necessary  good or the best.

Sometimes, I think that, they own one thing better than the things we own in Western countries; Happiness.

We need and learn what is Happiness from them. 

Children that my friend work with, she said you may want to bring more stuff to make the children happy or thinnking hard how to bring happiness to these children, but all these children ask for is someone to play soccer with them, that’s it. They are happy and satisfied with that. 

There are 10 fingers of each pair of hands.
Each finger has its own function.
There is no excuse for us; people who have the access to resources, people who have healthy body to say, “I cannot do it”.

So, start today, don’t make anymore excuse for yourself and if you can, reach your hands out to people.

P.S. Funny enough a lot of people think that you can only do volunteer work in Africa, I guess if you really want to do something meaningful, you can start from your local community.  I am sure a lot of places in your community needs you to give them a hand.

                                                                                                                             

Currently listening to: Africa by Paul Colman Trio

Africa
I came to change you but instead you changed me
And I confess I came to frame you in a photograph
But you showed me why
And you turned this heart around
And I see your smile how it can be
So much brighter than me