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"my heart shattered" / Apr 25, 09:11 AM
i watched the most amazing movie a few weeks ago. i haven’t stopped thinking about it. it was a real tear jerker. but not like the notebook. this film was about injustices, materialism, war, greed…. child soldiers. my heart shattered.
blood diamond.
in anger, i wondered why it took a leonard dicaprio film to teach me about such pain in the world. in all my years of schooling i was taught the quadratic formula, to recite shakespeare, to memorize the periodic table…. but i was never told about the current inner city education problems. i was never told that there are more slaves in the world today then at any other period in history. i was never told about the red light district. i was never told about blood diamonds.
when the movie ended and tears fell. “you wanna talk about it?” my roommate asked. i tell her i’m wondering why there wasn’t a class in school called, “things that really matter.” but i’m really upset so i used one of those forbidden four letter words in place of “things.”
this is where my favorite quote ever comes into play. gahndi told me i have to be the change i want to see in the world. so if i’m so angry that i wasn’t educated about things that really matter, then my burden becomes to educate others. so here’s the blog. i know it’s not eloquently written. i know i lack shocking statistics. i lack a video that’ll pull at your heart strings. but maybe you’ll go rent blood diamonds. maybe you’ll google search it. maybe you’ll check it out on youtube. and maybe this’ll continue to stay on my heart and i’ll have more to share with you about it later.
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