Even if only one can be saved

Vita 2022-03-23 09:02:52

When I saw this film, it was the third year after I watched some volunteer teaching in Shangri-La.

This movie has a good footing, but then it slowly made me feel like nonsense.

Poor people must have something to hate, and the history of poverty and backwardness in these countries is not just a day or two. In these places, the sins and greed of human nature are exposed more thoroughly. It is undoubtedly of little use for us outsiders to simply help, but because of our sympathy, in the end, we will still do something that we think can help. Their. But in reality, the result is still the same. It is nothing more than the object of death has changed from A to B or C.
There are too many reasons why some countries in Africa or Asia are so poor. What I can't understand is why they are so poor and have children? They are so poor, how can they still have time and physical strength to have children? Shouldn't they find ways to earn money and find food? The fact is that there are still so many children. . . The newspapers always say how many African children have died this year. . . How the hell did all these children get here? Why not do family planning? What are these men and women thinking? Giving birth to babies and then starving them to death or enjoying the African version of misery?

When my friend was teaching in Shangri-La, the school he taught had money to buy a car for the principal, but no money to add an accordion to the children to teach. What the fuck is this logic? These dog-like public servants do not ride on the heads of the masses every day to poop and pee. . . The oppressed people also live well, and they do not feel dissatisfied in the slightest. Now we go to help them, go to teach, to tell them the changes in the world, there is really little power.
However, there are still so many courageous and enthusiastic young people who have gone to volunteer education, help the poor, and use their own money to help children in poor places. Like me, they clearly know that their power is small, but even if it can only change a person's fate?

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Beyond Borders quotes

  • Nick Callahan: Are you wearing perfume... in the fucking desert?

  • Sarah Jordan: Why do you never say my name?

    Nick Callahan: Sorry?

    Sarah Jordan: You never say my name. Why?

    Nick Callahan: pauses - What's the first thing you do when you get a cold?

    Sarah Jordan: What?

    Nick Callahan: What's the first thing you do when you get a cold?

    Sarah Jordan: Uh... chicken soup, aspirin, scotch...

    Nick Callahan: You never just have the cold?

    Sarah Jordan: I don't know what...

    Nick Callahan: interrupts - Taken nothing. Just have the cold?

    Sarah Jordan: No

    Nick Callahan: No, and that's us, right? We drown it. Kill it. Numb it, anything not to feel. You know, when I was a doctor in London, no one ever said 'medahani'. They don't thank you like they thank you here. Cos here they feel everything, straight from God. There's no drugs, no painkillers. It's the weirdest, purest thing - suffering. And when you've seen that kind of courage in a li... - pauses, tears well up -... in a child... How could you ever want to do anything but just hold him in your arms? You remember that boy in London, JoJo?

    Sarah Jordan: Yes of course

    Nick Callahan: He was my first save, 10 years old. So thin he could barely stand. But he still found the strength the bury the rest of his family. We have no idea what courage is... He used to write me little notes. He helped me in the clinic. He was good. He was sweet, he was good. He wanted to be like me, I liked that. I mean, it was silly and childish, but it made me feel good about myself. So I took him with me to London, you know, my talisman, my courageous Africa... - pauses - How could I be so bloody stupid? How could I be so totally selfish? The point is... he was my friend. He had a name. So now I HAVE to remember him. If everybody I lose has a name...