Sometimes You See Something....
Sometimes you're flipping through those TV channels, and you just stop on a random one somewhere, and while you're doing a few other things, it's on in the background. You might hardly notice it, but then something - a sound, an image or combination of the two - makes you look up and you start to watch. And sometimes it affects you to the point where you partially wish you hadn't. Not because it's "bad" inherently, but because it hurts to watch.
Thus was the HBO special on what's happening today in the Chernobyl area. Something caught my attention, and then I couldn't stop watching, although it was repulsive and horrifying and upset me. The mere fact that children die because the government won't pay $300.00 for a heart patch, and others are born so horribly deformed because their parents are still living in contaminated areas just boggles the mind.
It's so trite to say that we take so much for granted, but when you see a child begging a foreign film maker for a television for the institution where he and other children are essentially incarcerated because they are physically or mentally handicapped, then collapsing because he used his last ounce of energy to ask , you have to stop and think. There but for an accident at birth go I, and everyone else. Think of that this coming thanksgiving.