Imagine

Imagine walking as your main/only form of transportation.

Imagine not owning a pair of shoes to protect your feet from disease and sores.

Imagine having only $.25-$1.00 as your savings.

Imagine walking miles barefoot for clean water.

Imagine not having clean water.

Imagine you and six or seven others living in area equal to or smaller than your master bathroom.

Imagine sleeping on the hard dirt floor where cockroaches, geckos, rats, and mosquitoes have easy access to you.

Imagine water dripping on you while you sleep because you don’t have enough money to repair your roof.

Imagine not eating for days and days on end.

Imagine digging through trash piles to find any source of food so you won’t starve.

Imagine washing all your dishes and clothes by hand.

Imagine everything you own can be carried with your own two hands.

Imagine your nine years old, both your parents died due to HIV/AIDS, and now it’s your responsibility to take care of your younger siblings.

Imagine not being able to read or write because your parents couldn’t afford an education.

Imagine having five to ten kids and no way of supporting them besides prostituting yourself .

Imagine when you get a severe cut or burn, your last option is to go to the hospital and the only way of “protecting” it is by caking manure, dirt or charcoal on it in hopes that it will heal.

NOW…

Imagine having a car or two or three sitting in your driveway.

Imagine owning five, ten, fifteen, or maybe even thirty pairs of shoes to go with any outfit you can think of.

Imagine having thousands of dollars in your checking and savings account plus extra cash to splurge with on the side.

Imagine having three or four faucets within fifty feet of you.

Imagine turning on a faucet with as much clean water flowing out of it as you want.

Imagine two to four other people living in a two thousand square foot house with three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Imagine sleeping in a queen size bed with a down comforter and a feather pillow.

Imagine sleeping sound throughout the night with no disturbances and a heater to keep you as warm as you want.

Imagine eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner with delicious desserts afterwards and snacks whenever you feel like it.

Imagine going to a grocery store where any food you ever wanted was right at your finger tips.

Imagine having a dishwasher and washing machine and dryer that you simply have to load, add soap, and push a button, then an hour or so later everything is clean.

Imagine what you can carry in your own two hands equals about one twentieth of what you own.

Imagine growing up with both parents taking care of you and your siblings until you move out of the house.

Imagine going to school every year from the ages five to twenty-two (or longer) learning reading, writing, arithmetic and what ever else you may want to specialize in.

Imagine owning your own business, being a teacher, a doctor, or a manager of a company which all usually come with benefits.

Imagine having the knowledge to fix a basic wound and if it‘s too big, the hospital is right around the corner.

Which one is easier for you to imagine?

Seriously after writing this, I’m disgusted with myself that I even feel I have the right to complain. My life is a hundred times better than millions around the world and yet I complain. Seriously ashamed.