Remember how you're eating in your comfortable home or in a nice cafe or restaurant and realize that at that very moment one of your brothers or sisters are out there on the streets hungry because they haven't eaten for an entire day. How hard is it for you to just go eat at a warteg or invite a couple to eat a warteg.
You act as if living without your mobile phone for a day is the end of the world, well remind yourself of the brothers and sisters who don't even know what a mobile phone or never even touched a mobile phone. Think of how easy it is for us to use computers, well remember everyone else who doesn't know how to use a computer. Sit on your warm comfy couch and watch DVDs and stuff, drink and eat your junk food, well remember your brothers and sisters who are sleeping on a piece of tikar beneath a bridge without a blanket.
If we look at ourselves and our lives then you'll see that the little things in our lives we take for granted mean so much for the less fortunate. Just remember the next time you go to CITOS to hang out with all your friends. You keep fighting with your friends whether to eat at SCORE or eat Nando's, well remember your brothers and sisters just outside of Citos who don't even know if they'll get anything to eat, who keep peering into a warteg but can't buy anything because the money they have in their pockets can't buy them anything substantial for dinner.
Just look at the things we do than we can appreciate what we have and how our hard work has paid off. Appreciate the education your family has given you and what you have attained. Stop living the life of a metropolitan high class lifestyle. Live that lifestyle but cut down on the excess. How hard is it not to go out every weekend? How hard is it to eat normal warteg like food so you know how your brothers and sisters feel.
How bout just changing our lifestyle a bit and saving it up to help others. Giving no matter how small. Now imagine if everyone, no if 100 people in Jakarta had that idea of giving someone food. 10 bungkusan multiplied by 100 people would mean 1000 bungkusan, we just fed 1000 people.
I know there are more than 100 people who care but just think if we all did the small things and how much it would add up if we did do all those small things and changing our lifestyle. Just think about it…Think if those 100 people did it every week for every month for every year. Think how many people they would feed. What if each day you do something, if you accumulate it and everyone else is doing it, imagine how much you can give in a year just by changing our lifestyles to give a light to others...
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