What a wonderful world

What a wonderful world we live in, 

Skies are blue and clouds, white where teenage girls worry about the amount of insulating material on their bodies. Isn't it wonderful to hear babies crying because they don't have clean water to drink and no medicine to sooth their pains. We are so ignorant to the worlds problems. Its wonderful how there are wars everyday, over land and in our minds. Hundreds of people die and all we can think about is snapchatting our friends. Children are starving and ceasing to exist whilst others spend hundreds on a bag no bigger than a pencil case. The world, in my eyes, is not wonderful. 

Is it wonderful how people find salvation in cutting into the tender flesh of their own bodies? Battles go on everyday, the biggest is the battle with ourselves and in our minds. Some children wonderfully dont know how to read or write whilst others bunk off school. Is the world really a great place, as we all think of it? 

Is the world fair? No, it isn't. There is hardly anything that IS fair in this world. I know it, you know it, we all know it yet we chose to remain ignorant. Perhaps the worlds predicaments are inevitable or perhaps its just human nature. I know we, as normal people, can't really do anything about it, but we all have the opportunity to change the world even if it is only the little bit of the world around us.


The world isnt really wonderful, But we can all do a little bit to change that.

Amani x

A Whole New Attitude

Hello,

So, like most of you, last week I went back to school to start year 10. I decided to go back with a whole new world  attitude. Instead of complaining I am taking it upon myself to appreciate what I do have. On my first day of school we were walking to our new form room when loads of people started complaining about the stairs, just when I was about to join them, I stopped and thought about people who don't even have a school with stairs and how lucky we are to have a school with multiple classrooms and floors. I mean, in some parts of the world, the ceiling is a canopy of leaves and branches so we are so lucky to even be in a building. One thing that really struck me is that some girls were complaining about not having air conditioning in our form room. What kind of world do we live in where people are in extreme hot conditions without so much as a fan and people are complaining about being in a mostly cold country without air conditioning?

Yes, it is sort of annoying having to walk up a couple of stairwells every morning but we do have water bottles in our bags, its not like we have to walk a couple of miles to collect water that might give us cholera just to quench our thirsts. Loads of people, and I admit;even myself sometimes, moan about such trivial things that really have no importance in the grand scheme of things. This academic year, I am going try to appreciate things a lot more and I think that if more people concentrated on what we do have rather than what we don't, it would be such a better environment. Teenagers now think they are in the worst possible predicament when really they are so privileged.

I hope I have given you some food for thought and I encourage you to realise that your situation is probably not the end of the world and instead of moaning about trivial things, take time to appreciate all that you do have.

Have a great time back at school,
Amani x