The Need For Compassion

In a fleeting second, one of the world's most powerful tower came tumbling down. The skies blurred out in explosion, oozing with grayish fumes. All eyes tuned in and the world ceased for a moment. After the 9/11 attacks, it's as if the world was tied in a knot. Emotions were overflowing, shared in one global sympathy. I thought it was the worst, then came the tsunami. Thousands of properties were devastated, souls trapped in loss and despair. Why does it have to take a tragedy before the world could come and share?

AIDS doesn't differ from any of those tragedies, but the battle had taken too long. While everybody had talked about it, do they really know any of its toll? I've heard stories from different places in the world, there isn't empathy after all! They label the disease with some stigma and people inflicted with it some trauma!

We see Bono calling for help, while other leaders would follow on a roll. But I also heard the story of a woman with HIV who was forced to abort her child, and her parents left her in the wild. The mother soon wandered the land with no family but insanity. So why does it have to be so cruel? The world speaks of prevention but what about people with AIDS and their protection?

We've seen it in movies and heard the story everywhere. But how come the world is still so cold? They also need the cure, but most of all is a heart so pure to understand and feel what they're going through. That's all they want, at least for now.