And a little more perspective..

Another documentary that I watched recently and highly recommend is called I Am Because We Are. It was narrated by Madonna and she brought us on a trip with her to Malawi to have a peek into the experiences she's had there. Here's a quote from the movie that seems to match my feelings perfectly, so I feel like I need to share them:

“The people that live here are amazing. I often feel like we’re the ones who have it wrong. In spite of all the hardships and devastation, they have a sense of community and extended family that I haven’t seen anywhere else. When you travel around, you see how diverse the landscape is. Couple that with the resiliency of the people. It’s hard to understand why there is so much suffering. There’s a sense of humanity that you don’t find in places like America or England. It feels like modernization equals no humanity. You get trapped when you come here, you get caught up. I look at the way they live and I think, oh god, they have illnesses and they have cultural traditions that seem antithetical to life, but yet they’re happy and you could drive down a street in Beverly Hills, you could drive down Central Park West, you could drive down Park Lane and you don’t see that kind of joy. You don’t see that kind of happiness, so who’s right? Being in Africa has made me understand that suffering is subjective. There is an enormous amount of suffering here that is really tangible. People are dying of illnesses, they’re hungry, they don’t have parents, they don’t have a roof over their head, they don’t have so many basic things that we take for granted, and yet they have an appreciation and a joy and a gratitude that we could never understand.”