we gave up before we gave it a chance

It is too easy to become desensitized.
"Eat your food, there's starving kids in Africa."
It's become cliche. Starving African children.
You hear it and just filter it out.
One child dies from starvation every five seconds.
That's 17,000 kids every day.

people just write it off. no one cares. we are so disconnected from a life where people literally die of hunger that we just ignore it. safe in our little american bubble. not our problem. we will go about our daily lives, consumed in our self-absorbed materialistic culture. and in a distant world, they will go about their daily lives, eating dirt cookies to stay alive.

If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:13