Thirsty Anyone?
December 31, 2006
I guess we never really appreciate anything we have in this world until we no longer have it. Like water, we walk into our kitchen or bathroom or go to a sink and there the water flows freely. We look in our fridge and there is a pitcher full of water, and of course somewhere in the house there’s a stash of water bottles. We take something like water for granted, and this is myself included; it is my parents who remind me constantly after I take like an hour long shower about how I am wasting water, how it is israaf and how there are people in the world who don’t even have a sip of water to drink. Or when they tell me to go drink water, because I really don’t ever drink water, that I should be thankful how I have not a only a sip of water but loads of water right there in front of me, I don’t even have to work for the water that is given to me except for moving a couple of steps and that is it. In the short clip below you’ll see how we are so lucky and how it huts to see kids outside of our community and what they go through.
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Nijma | January 1, 2007 at 2:02 am
This doesn’t make any sense to me. Why would children chase after water? Bottled water is much too expensive for people in these countries to buy, and they don’t need it anyway. I always boiled water for drinking when I lived in the Middle East, but my Arab neighbors could drink it without boiling and they didn’t get sick.
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radf | January 1, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Allahualam knows best why he is being chased but its still wrong that the soldiers are having fun.
-radf-
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Nijma | January 1, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Maybe there is a street value for the water and they can sell it. In Jordan an unopened liter bottle goes for about 35 cents or 50 cents U.S. Mostly the Jordanians use the bottles to refrigerate ordinary water so they can drink it chilled.
Yes, the tone of the soldier is mocking.
Often in the Middle East you will see children–large groups of them–chasing westerners to throw rocks at them. I have never seen children chase westerners for a water bottle.