HALLOWEEN
Today was Halloween. You'd think it's just like any other day, and it did actually start off like that. In the late afternoon I went over to my cousin's cousin's house, which on this VERY popular "trick-or-treat" street. People who live on this street go ALL OUT, and mind you - they spend over $200 on candy because of how many treaters come by!!!! (That's a flight to Canada!)
So anyway, this whole Halloween business started to make me think. I thought about what a stupid thing it really is. Kids dress up in violent costumes (not too many clowns), they watch scary movies on TV all weekend, and eat WAYYYY too much sugar. HUH? Aside from that, the streets are filled with psychos (more than usual), and bottom line: It's just SOOO stupid.
There are people dying in the world, children starving, families living in mud shacks, people sitting around not doing anything.... and here we are walking around our neighborhoods like people who have NEVER seen candy before and trying to collect as much chocolate as humanly possible in one night. Filling bag after bag... only to throw them away, or even worse EAT them all!
I also thought about something else. We always talk about the Armenian Genocide (how Armenian of me to stick this in somewhere completely random), but tonight I was thinking about this Halloween "normalcy" of life. I was wondering, in October of 1915, there were probably American children going around trick-or-treating while Armenians were being massacred. I also remembered the many news articles found in different newspapers of the U.S. about the genocide.... Aren't WE reading articles of the same sort TODAY about what's going on in Sudan??? (We are) And what do we do about it? We, people who think about what others were doing while we were being murdered.... how are we making a difference?
I had so many random thoughts tonight. A project that I and some other very special people, have been working on - is collecting warm clothing for children and adults. The clothing must be decent and clean. Like if you wouldn't wear it with that tear... why should someone in Armenia wear it??? We plan to somehow collect donations and ship this stuff to Hayasdan so we can then pass it out to people who need it (personally). This also goes along with our little Knitting Project which is going really well! It's growing! (Read about us in the Asbarez soon).
Well, other than that.... I bought my Armenia ticket! WOOOO HOOOO! Nor Dari in hayasdan for the 2nd time! Come on, it's gotta be GREAT! I'm beginning to like the winters better (no annoying tourists-- minch ayt, I think I may be in that group).
VOTE on Tuesday!!!!
TSUH! :)~
Today was Halloween. You'd think it's just like any other day, and it did actually start off like that. In the late afternoon I went over to my cousin's cousin's house, which on this VERY popular "trick-or-treat" street. People who live on this street go ALL OUT, and mind you - they spend over $200 on candy because of how many treaters come by!!!! (That's a flight to Canada!)
So anyway, this whole Halloween business started to make me think. I thought about what a stupid thing it really is. Kids dress up in violent costumes (not too many clowns), they watch scary movies on TV all weekend, and eat WAYYYY too much sugar. HUH? Aside from that, the streets are filled with psychos (more than usual), and bottom line: It's just SOOO stupid.
There are people dying in the world, children starving, families living in mud shacks, people sitting around not doing anything.... and here we are walking around our neighborhoods like people who have NEVER seen candy before and trying to collect as much chocolate as humanly possible in one night. Filling bag after bag... only to throw them away, or even worse EAT them all!
I also thought about something else. We always talk about the Armenian Genocide (how Armenian of me to stick this in somewhere completely random), but tonight I was thinking about this Halloween "normalcy" of life. I was wondering, in October of 1915, there were probably American children going around trick-or-treating while Armenians were being massacred. I also remembered the many news articles found in different newspapers of the U.S. about the genocide.... Aren't WE reading articles of the same sort TODAY about what's going on in Sudan??? (We are) And what do we do about it? We, people who think about what others were doing while we were being murdered.... how are we making a difference?
I had so many random thoughts tonight. A project that I and some other very special people, have been working on - is collecting warm clothing for children and adults. The clothing must be decent and clean. Like if you wouldn't wear it with that tear... why should someone in Armenia wear it??? We plan to somehow collect donations and ship this stuff to Hayasdan so we can then pass it out to people who need it (personally). This also goes along with our little Knitting Project which is going really well! It's growing! (Read about us in the Asbarez soon).
Well, other than that.... I bought my Armenia ticket! WOOOO HOOOO! Nor Dari in hayasdan for the 2nd time! Come on, it's gotta be GREAT! I'm beginning to like the winters better (no annoying tourists-- minch ayt, I think I may be in that group).
VOTE on Tuesday!!!!
TSUH! :)~
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