Children Full of Life

On May 29 2009 05:05 Ingenol wrote:
"He believes the world values life less every day." This is so exceedingly true it is excruciating. Not only do people not value life in general, we don't even value our own lives, our integrity, our pride. When you cease to value yourself, you cannot value anything. For someone to be important to you, for someone's life, ideals, culture to matter to you implies that you yourself are of value; that the attention and sensitivity you give to things carries some merit. People say the world has gone to the greedy and selfish, but in reality those who steal, rob and cheat are selfless, they have no respect for themselves and thus are incapable of respect for anything.

I think those videos are so wonderful because you see how the children come to appreciate themselves as individuals (the girl bringing in her father's final drawing, students sharing their personal feelings with classmates), and as a result come to appreciate their peers and the world around them as well.

Thanks for posting, those were really moving.

On May 29 2009 05:05 Ingenol wrote:
"He believes the world values life less every day." This is so exceedingly true it is excruciating. Not only do people not value life in general, we don't even value our own lives, our integrity, our pride.