Philippines 101: Greed

How hard is it to let your kids stay with you until they are ready? To do your job as a parent and make sure that your children are ready for the world? It’s not hard at all. If you have the attitude of “Get your own.” Then you don’t need to be a parent. Get your organs snipped. You are the problem with the world today.

Another example of American greed? How many times has someone walked up to you and asked you for help and you’ve said something like “I wish I could help but I have problems of my own.”  Liar. The though that you need to get everything you want before you will even consider helping anyone else is the reason why you are  the problem with the world today.

What I witnessed in the Philippines made me ashamed of the way I had been living as an American. But I decided I would try to be a better person, and teach my fellow Americans to be better people. What did I see? People giving and helping others without any reward. In the Philippines if you donate or volunteer to help someone there is no tax write off. You literally do it because it’s the right thing to do. In the Philippines I saw people living in smaller houses without many of the luxuries that Americans take for granted? It wasn’t because they were poor. It’s a myth that Filipinos are a poor country. The reason why they live the way they do is because it is their culture to make sure that their family and friends are taking care of. If someone in your neighborhood doesn’t have food to eat, you go without that brand new pair of shoes or the new video game you’ve really been wanting. You get your neighbor some food to eat.

If every American would make sure that their neighbors had food to eat, if every parent made sure their own children were ready to handle the world, if people would just put others before themselves the world would be a better place. Stop being what’s wrong with the world. Start being what’s right with the world.