Goofed Up!

Have you ever thought about how different things can be in places around the world? After watching the nightly news recently, I saw this contrast so vividly. Firstly, there was a tragic story about Black Friday shopping. People killing others for electronics and others others spraying pepper spray on others to get items they wanted. It's tragic that people are willing to hurt others to get what they want. The next story was on a country in desperate need in Africa that's dealing with a water and food crisis. In this story I saw very similar scenes, with people virtually rioting for items. The only difference was that these people were not fighting for an Xbox or a 47 inch flat screen TV, but simply for water and food. Sometimes I wonder about what things are coming to when people are willing to hurt others for items like this. I think about the image it puts in people's minds about what America is all about. I wonder what people in other nations think when they see two grown men fighting each other for a video game? To think where our priorities are when others around the world are starving and dying because of not having food or water. We need to change our priorities and recognize how goofed up they are. We need to think about what we can to get our priorities back on those things they should be on. Each of us will have a part to play with this.