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bondja
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States39 Posts
January 02 2012 19:46 GMT
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As everyday people, well hopefully everyday unless you take a coma for a nap, we fight against the odds to survive. Having clean water, using facilities that are clean, food that is provided to us at whim, clothes on our backs, and as well as heat during the winter and cool air during the summer. We are gifted many things in our lives and are truly lucky to be born into a society that has everything ready for an individual at the push of a button; literally. I was going to sit down and talk about the struggle of having to go to an internationally accredited university, working for a 50 billion dollar industry, having a great family as well as my girlfriend, within the balance of playing Starcraft and working on getting out of gold.

Then I realized how self centered this post would've been. How arrogant that I would talk about my blessings and how they are actually tragic inconveniences to my gaming world. How sad that I have to go work for 6 hours a day instead of playing League of Legends and finding the right rune pages for Veigar. Yes putting references into this blog of our favorite online games is sometimes humorous the real message I'm saying is not. Maybe we should all take a step back, not saying stop playing video games because this is how we all relax, but maybe we should take a step back to look at the big picture. We are so lucky to be able to play these games.

I am currently sitting in front of a $300 desk, a $130 keyboard, $70 mouse, $210 monitor, a custom built computer worth over $1,000. What sits on my desk is clean water in my coca-cola glass, which I don't drink soda, my DVD's of p90x2, my wallet full of money, and my turtle which was hand-crafted for me in Africa. There are a lot of messages here and I just write on a whim and I don't re-read but the bottom line is don't forget how lucky we all are when we are raging in a game, or if we have an urge to play one more game but our family wants to hang out. Maybe I don't even know what I'm trying to say, which to be honest I'm just typing.

So, Bondja, you ask. What is it that you are trying to say or am I just reading a wall of text? Well, what I am trying to say is don't take everything for granted that we are able to obtain because there are millions of people out there in this world that don't even dream of what we have because they don't even know what it is. On that note, if anyone likes to drink coffee please click the link below. It leads to a non-profit organization which all the proceeds goes to buy wells for Uganda, Africa.

Three avocados

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Stratos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic6104 Posts
January 02 2012 20:04 GMT
#2
So next time I have a problem I should just be happy because somewhere else someone is starving to death? Nope. You can't run away from your problems like that, eventually you will have to face them. This attitude only works momentarily.
En Taro Violet
Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
January 02 2012 20:07 GMT
#3
5 stars. Finally a person in touch with reality on TL.
Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
bondja
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States39 Posts
January 02 2012 20:12 GMT
#4
@Stratos - That's not what I'm saying at all. I can't demand people to go out and donate and to help out. I would be punished for "trying to force people" to take such action. I took a passive stance on this post so that people would be able to make their own decisions. I can't force anything nor do I want to. That is not my choice nor my position in life. I'm not telling people to run away but to think about lucky we all are. I provided a link to a website if anyone ever would believe that they wanted to face the problems and not to keep running away from them. I hope I cleared up any confusing. Like I said, I don't proof-read.
Stratos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic6104 Posts
January 02 2012 20:26 GMT
#5
You will find yourself not giving a rat's ass about Africa and just focusing on your own problems, just like everyone else, in a day or a two. And it's a good thing because it drives the evolution and it took us where we are today. You can still donate something to people in Africa or some homeless guy living nearby, I don't have any problem with that - in fact I sometimes do that as well... It's just that I don't find anything about their misery that should make me feel any better about my fucked up life.
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