Do you realize how much we know of how our world is going; what’s going on; all the mishaps that are happening so “comfortably” every day and that we keep on doing hundreds of bad things with such “natural” ignorance as if this daily doing wrong were not important at all.
How do you really feel about this? Isn’t it appalling to see that we HAVE the awareness, even the consciousness, but don’t act upon it?
You want to know why I come with this now, and not earlier?
That is a bit of a story. I will start with telling you that I started very young with the wish to serve (and help) humanity because I saw so many things going wrong; some because people didn’t know what they were actually doing, others done in total awareness and yet without enough care as to try differently. Many times this has caused in me a great disappointment in humanity. But instead of throwing the towel I threw the glove. Because I can, we all can, make a change!
Now I have just come back from my journey to Kenya. It has been very impressive to see how poor and primitive this country is with so little knowledge, the majority of the population sad, scared, unhappy and in great need, and living amongst rubbish and dirt.
They don’t have the awareness, nor the knowledge of doing it differently. We DO!! They are willing to learn, yearning to learn, to be able to go to school, to provide water that is somehow drinkable to their folks, but they don’t know where to start.
We have it all and are turning into selfish, self-centred little ego-trippers, stingy and with ugly thoughts. And we can’t care less about really doing work to make a change.
OK, I know, there are a few who do want to help and are doing their best, yet I see too many making a big fuss of someone making a mistake, not acting perfectly(to their standards), as they have expectation how that person should act, and spend hours talking, debating about it and emailing kilometres long texts instead of going for that which is really needed.
And this hit me while I was still in Kenya; this arrogance of the white, and the lack of real care and love, yet the exuberance of self-righteousness and… laziness. Here everyone is soooo good in talking, writing etc. but acting?...
Sorry, this kind of article is maybe not what you expect of me, yet this is crude reality showing itself to me again and again.
As you might have read in my CV of the sasenyin.de website, about 35 years ago I did a project in Indonesia for abandoned and miss-built children. Often they were both. This has become a self-running project that over 25 years I don’t need to check any more. It is ongoing as the ones that grow 18 and find a job, pay 10% of their wages into the project to enable the next kids to enter and find a life. In those days doing that was just a matter of organisation, know-how and money. There was no bureaucracy.
This time I was in Kenya and for those who know me it will be clear that this was not meant to be a vacation. And of course it was not. I started a project here too. It is just at the very start. It will take a lot of will power, time, strength and help of everybody possible, and it can be a possibility for you to give more meaning to your life.
I will soon start a blog about this project with the same name (Wake up, your life is waiting), yet the title will be in Swahili, the main African language. The continence of the blog will first be in English, so please look out for it and give me your help and support. But don’t just write me an email with that you find it great, as I will need to spend much time on everything, old and new. Only if you want to actively engage, let me know and don’t hesitate.
With Love, Ria sasenyin@hotmail.com
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