adding to the list of things i don’t understand

When I was managing the database for Becas Vallarta, one of the things that really irked and confused me was why kids who go to public schools have to buy uniforms?? It’s ridiculous really, and so sad to see all the kids who can’t go to school because they don’t have an above 80% average for a scholarship or the money to pay for school supplies and, IRK, uniforms. Ridiculous and sad. On a relative level, these kids aren’t starving so, no, it’s not as “urgent” and, in a way, this sense of non-urgency really works against them because people aren’t as compelled to help. But they should be… because education is the way out for generations and generations and generations of people cleaning homes, sweeping other people’s floors, working for almost nothing, being treated like they’re less… on and on it goes.

Just thinking about Becas because I (like everyone else here in Canada) saw a news report about the long line-ups to buy the iPhone. I guess, on the one hand, I see that life is for enjoying, life is for living. I don’t think it’s my place to judge or that we’re here to be martyrs. Maybe we’re here to enjoy and share, and that’s the balance that’s missing… what do I know? nothing, absolutely nothing really. My mind is just a mumble bumble hodge podge of images, thoughts and ideas causing my heart to swell joyfully sometimes and pang so painfully other times…. speaking of the heart panging painfully, this is basically what popped into my mind (working in duality-mode again) when I saw the iPhone story…. I guess it’s just the sense that the world is so off… or maybe it’s always been this way, I don’t know.