Poverty across Africa and other third world countries that suffer from high rates of death each day due to the extremely low standards of living. It's seriously a whole different world for me, I can't even bear to imagine what a horrible nightmare that would be. It would be beyond surreal for me. Even when I do try to imagine, it hurts, to know I wouldn't be able to survive under such conditions. It took me a while to choose my political topic, only because I was searching for something that would gain my passion immediately, not something that would demand it. I didn't want to choose something I was not touched by. This particular image tugged strongly on my heartstrings that it still stings just by looking at it.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/why-you-will-never-see-a-front-page-like-this/2005/06/30/1119724757442.html
I would say generally I'm a very optomistic person. Though when I feel low, I feel really low, down in a hole low, but I can pick myself up after a while. The point of me stating this is that, I believe that I'm an optomistic person because I'm ignorant. I'm ignorant that there are others out there that are suffering while I take things for granted so easily. I would not say that I generally watch the news or update myself on current affairs by reading the newspaper often, because I don't. For one, the language in the newspapers are just so darn sophisticated and confusing that sometimes I get lost in the information. For second, watching the news is only something I do when there is nothing better on, but lately I haven't been watching much TV anyway. I'm quite slow on the updates such as the SiChuan Earthquake, OBAMA becoming the first black American President (seriously, that's so bad of me). Because I'm so ignorant of the fact that there are homeless children, people dying all over the world, I'm okay because I don't know or acknowledge it so much. However, when I do come across images like these, or any information of such, it tugs and pulls me down, right back down to earth where the pain that I feel from minor problems is absolutely NOTHING compared to what these children, these fathers, and mothers are dealing with their whole life. Ignorance is bliss, but acknowledging the problem and doing something about it is better.
Even though submerging myself into the research on poverty across Africa and other third world countries will make me feel sad, pitiful and downright horrible, it'll make me feel more when I start creating my political poster. Passion is what I was looking for, and I found it tonight, finally.
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