911 - conscience

so - my heart just aces to say this. coming from a rich country isn't always a blessing - when are people going to understand that? yeah, i have possibilities other doesn't have because i'm born in Norway, but on the other hand, have all the blessings turned out to be good?

i've just spent a month in asia, in Cambodia. and i have to say, being the poorest country in asia, Cambodia is more rich in many ways than Norway is. yeah, we have the money, but they have the hearts…

being in a country where people don’t know that they can go to school, they don’t know that they can earn knowledge… that is just painful to look at. I think about myself and all the different dreams I have had about the future, and just think – “what if I didn’t know that I could have had this dreams? What would I dream about then?” I realise more and more that I am really blessed coming from Norway, I get an education, we have a health system that works, we have a democracy – although we don’t always agree, at least we have one – we are aloud to say what we want to, think what we want to, and feel like we want to feel. We have been so blessed, and most of us don’t even know it!

I know I needed this trip to get focus in life, to make my drams and time count for something, not just following the “wealthy-but-still-so-poor” stream. Life is about more than money (shocker isn’t it?) it is about not only giving yourself a chance to see life at it’s fullest, but also to give others that possibility. And when are we, the wealthy countries, going to give others a chance of the life we just happened to be blessed with?

Let me just say; dear to be different, dear to share the blessing that you just happend to get. It could have been the other way around.


bless others - cause you are!