So much going on in my life right now...most of it will be over in 3 months, but still.
A) So much schoolwork. Just doesn't match up with the exhausting senioritis I suffer.
B) Having to read 100 Years of Solitude. Dilemma: GREAT book, but 452 pages.
C) Plans: college, prom, spring break.
D) Time! SOMEONE STOP TIME FOR ME PLEASE!
E) Annoyingguywon'ttakeahint
But, I shouldn't complain.
I watched Born Into Brothels today, since it was free On Demand. It's a documentary by photographer Zana Briski about the children whose parents work in the red light district of Calcutta, India. Very sad stuff right there. They live in Hell on Earth. There are prostitutes literally lining the streets and alleyways. The men sit around either drinking, smoking/doing drugs, or beating the women. The mothers who are prostitutes see no future for their children other than adding them to "the line", and when Briski offered the children places in nice boarding schools that would prepare them for a good future, alot of the mothers removed the children after a few months, and one of the girls removed HERSELF from it. They barely have a proper living place, everything is rusting and crumbling, the whole family shares one cramped room, the babies poo and pee anywhere because there are no diapers, the adults call the children horrible names, and the old, wrinkling great-grandmothers are prostitutes as well! It's the most infernal thing I've ever seen. And I know that even in America the red-light industry is productive - it's just an underground sort of thing.
And you know what? At the end of the day, people might be like, "oh, poor things" but no one really gives a damn. It's not their problem. It's all make-believe, to people like you and I who have always had the comforts of a good life. And then again, we have "bigger" things to worry about.
A) So much schoolwork. Just doesn't match up with the exhausting senioritis I suffer.
B) Having to read 100 Years of Solitude. Dilemma: GREAT book, but 452 pages.
C) Plans: college, prom, spring break.
D) Time! SOMEONE STOP TIME FOR ME PLEASE!
E) Annoyingguywon'ttakeahint
But, I shouldn't complain.
I watched Born Into Brothels today, since it was free On Demand. It's a documentary by photographer Zana Briski about the children whose parents work in the red light district of Calcutta, India. Very sad stuff right there. They live in Hell on Earth. There are prostitutes literally lining the streets and alleyways. The men sit around either drinking, smoking/doing drugs, or beating the women. The mothers who are prostitutes see no future for their children other than adding them to "the line", and when Briski offered the children places in nice boarding schools that would prepare them for a good future, alot of the mothers removed the children after a few months, and one of the girls removed HERSELF from it. They barely have a proper living place, everything is rusting and crumbling, the whole family shares one cramped room, the babies poo and pee anywhere because there are no diapers, the adults call the children horrible names, and the old, wrinkling great-grandmothers are prostitutes as well! It's the most infernal thing I've ever seen. And I know that even in America the red-light industry is productive - it's just an underground sort of thing.
And you know what? At the end of the day, people might be like, "oh, poor things" but no one really gives a damn. It's not their problem. It's all make-believe, to people like you and I who have always had the comforts of a good life. And then again, we have "bigger" things to worry about.
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