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Fashion, Fitness & a Countdown
As for lingerie, sure, I love it. But still it stays on for notverylong. And then bam! It might never be seen again because who wants to see/wear the same piece of lingerie all the time?
Complain Less, Appreciate More
We live in a world of complainers. For those more fortunate, the complaints might be more materialistic and less drastic. Now, I’m not saying I don’t do this. I myself am guilty of complaining about trivial matters. That why’s why when I read this Buzzfeed article, which outlined the below, I challenged myself to complain less and appreciate more. Why don’t you all join me?
And if you feel like you need reasons to do so, read on (examples taken from article):
1. Political assassinations
In the Philippines 2010 election year, over 100 people were killed due to political violence. VICE follows this terrifying cycle of violence as politicians, businessmen, church groups, and everyday citizens are stockpiling weapons to take the law into their own hands.
Image by Pat Roque / AP
2. Contaminated water
30,000 deaths occur every week from unsafe water an unhygienic living conditions; and 90 percent of those deaths are children. Here, a resident of Mabvuku fetches water from unprotected sources in Harare.
Image by STRINGER/ZIMBABWE / Reuters
3. Human trafficking
According to recent crime data, 14 children go missing in New Delhi every day, at least six of whom are victims of human trafficking. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says around 1.2 million children are victims of child trafficking across the world every year.
Image by MANAN VATSYAYANA / Getty Images
4. Child soldiers
Here, a child soldier points his gun at a photographer in Liberia. The use of children for the military is a worldwide issue. VICE covers the story from Afghanistan where Taliban leaders are manipulating children and teenagers into carrying out their suicide bombings.
Image by GEORGES GOBET / Getty Images
5. Severe drought
Brazil’s northeast is suffering its worst drought in five decades. Lack of rain has hurt corn and cotton crops, left cattle and goats to starve in dry pastures, and affected 30 percent of sugar cane production in the region responsible for 10 percent of Brazil’s cane output.
Image by LUNAE PARRACHO / Reuters
6. Electronic waste
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), e-waste is the fastest growing commodity in the waste stream. Guiyu, China may be the largest electronic waste site on earth, with 80 percent of it coming from overseas.
Image by STRINGER SHANGHAI / Reuters
7. Education inequality
Pakistani school children gather under a poster of injured classmate Malala Yousafzai who the Taliban attempted to assassinate for her outspoken insistence on girls’ education. She has since returned to school and is now the youngest nominee of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Image by Anja Niedringhaus / AP
8. Hunger in Mauritania
In this African country, half of the population lives below the poverty line and faces chronic food shortages due to lack of rain.
Image by SUSANA VERA / Reuters
9. Poverty in India
Mumbai is the center of India’s struggle for twenty-first century economic ascendance. In a place where more than half its people live in slums sprawled in the shadow of billion-dollar, single-family skyscrapers, VICE looks in on just how surreal this collision of caste and future can be.
Promises, promises
One day while in Hawaii, my brother said “promises were meant to be broken” and Tim turned to me and said “I don’t understand why people say that … Promises are meant to be kept.” Yes, he’s a keeper. But he’s also right so he got me thinking.
And then I stumbled on this old photo I took of an excerpt from “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green.
It completely relates to the promises Tim and I made to each other in the beginning of our relationship, especially for me. Because I had no idea what being in a long distance military relationship would be like. I hated him being “far” away in Virginia and then was almost shell shocked to learn he’d be heading to Hawaii for 3 years. But I made a promise to be loyal and supportive and I’d fallen in love with him. So I kept my promise because of it.
I think too often people think promises are wishy washy or too old-fashioned. But I think made with the right people, they are as precious as ever.
“Promise? Promise.”
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