Guatemala and Me

After reading the articles about Guatemala I didn't realize how selfish I am.  I rarely think about how a ton of people and children are starving every day.  The last time I thought about all the children who are malnourished was when I was at the gym last week and a commercial came on about donating to help feed starving children.  I really liked The Family article because it was told by a person who actually experienced everything themselves and not just witnessed it.  Rigoberta Menchu lived in the mountains, so their would have to walk a long ways just to get to their neighbors.  Her parents worked in the fincas to make money.  When she was five she remembered picking coffee and cotton.  When she was eight she became ill and her family had to return back to the Altiplano.  Here, it rained a lot and they were hardly comfortable because they were always wet and had no clothes.  I couldn't imagine living like this which once again goes back to me being selfish.  When I have a bad day and use some expression like (FML) I need to stop and realize that I have it made.  I have a roof over my head, I'm not starving, I have several luxuries, and I have a decent job that doesn't entitle me to work all day and all night to make some tiny wage.  The women in Guatemala usually have nine to ten children and of those children Rigoberta said that only three or four would be healthy and caould survive.  The remaining children would have bellies swollen from malnutrition and most likely would die.  I don't know how the mothers can cope with knowing that some of her children will die because of malnutrition.  Just reading this hurt my heart because I wish there was a way to just make this all stop, no one would be hungry and we could all be healthy.  Too bad it's not that easy :(