Help make it history

Just watched a bit of Idols Give Back and it's super saddening how so many children have to fend for themselves. This little boy of age not more than 12 cooks, sweeps and takes care of him and his brother because his parents died and he broke down in front of Ryan Seacrest. Can you imagine? A little boy not more than 12, have to fight to live and live on strong without the care and love of his parents. And boys of this age in Singapore are more concerned about Pokemon and who has the latest phone. The vast difference is almost disgusting and sad all the same.

I feel blessed, really do. But at the same time wondering if I really do deserve all this. I should give more to them who really needs help. Those kids in Africa, they think school as an escape from the harsh cruel world out there while we think school as like a jail, feeling the joy only when school ends. They see school as a doorway back into the childhood they should be having, and not having to carry all the burdens of fending for themselves and ensuring they live to see the next morning. And we trudge to school grumbling, and complain when we cook for ourselves.

And my heart aches for these adult-children, to be adult in their minds but stuck in the child's body. And when that 12 year old boy cried, you can tell how much he suffered, and the suffering he has gone through is something not many children has went through. And he tries hard to be strong, not bawling and crying out loud like a kid, but just allowing a tear to trickle down his cheek.

But what truly sticks to the back of my brain and haunts is his eyes. Huge and glassy from the tears and you can see how much he has just suffered, but there's still hope in his eyes, I saw it.

Not many are as lucky as Zahara and have a hot, high earning superstar adopting them. But that is not the point, the point is Zahara is elevated from poverty to posh and not have to worry about food and clothes for a long time to come I believe.

I don't know what I can do to help those kids, but when the chance comes, I will. And I just saw this deep quote:

"You need a lot of money to create poverty"