"It just worries me because, you know, all the great civilizations of the world got to a point where they all they cared about was...their own pleasure. They lost focus on what life was about. And they fell. And it scares me because I think that's where we're at now, and if we fall, it will be you and your parents and your children that have to deal with it." - Nana
Who can predict the turnings of history? The end is approaching, to be sure, but hell, its always been approaching. Maybe the world stage is being set for something to happen, something that will have entire textbooks devoted to it in the years to come. Something will have to happen soon regardless, since we can't just keep coasting along. Maybe the something is the fact that Africa is still decimated by disease and starvation and largely the rest of the world turns a blind eye; maybe the something will be a generation standing to "do away with the yoke of injustice," to "spend themselves on behalf of the hungry," to set the debtors free and care for the orphans and widows and celebrate the Jubilee.
I'm leaving in a week to go to Nairobi, Kenya to visit an orphanage there, and another farther north in Muralal. I'm a fledgling traveler, just out of my first year of college and I'm restless and ready to start my long journey. The only adventures I've had thus far have been growing up in Texas, spending a week and a half on the Amazon, and working in Nuevo Laredo every other weekend last year. And now, Africa...
