When I was a kid growing up here in the US, I watched a lot of TV. I watched a lot of game shows out of sheer boredom, feeling there was ‘nothing to do’.
The game shows, like Let’s Make a Deal, or Match Game, the Price is Right or even the early days with Dialing for Dollars – all of them at some point featured a ‘winner’ who would leap for joy, cry tears of disbelief, stumble over themselves and the show host as they tried to comprehend the magnitude of what they had just won; a NEW CAR! A trip for two to fabulous HAWAII!!! A brand new Amana Radarange!!!
Okay you get it.
Today, I’m asking us all to stop the madness. To convert our anticipated moments of ‘winning’ towards an anticipation of ‘saving’. Imagine what it would be like, if Bob Barker had revealed … “you’ve just fed an ENTIRE FAMILY FOR A YEAR!!!!!”. or “you just supplied ARV‘s to 30 infants!!!!!”. OR “you’ve just provided education, and an alternative to drugs and prostitution to an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!”.
Stop the madness. Start the dreaming. The caring. The doing.
PeaceFest 09.
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