UNTIL ITS YOU...
A story that stayed with me was one of the TedEd talks given by Bill Gates about Malaria. To give you a context, there were many people who died because of malaria and the unavailability of vaccines during that time. Malaria was most widely affected in poor nations and the majority of rich ones had already tackled the problem. Since the nations were poor, funding to improve the conditions was not allotted. Gates then goes on opening a jar full of mosquitoes into the auditorium saying, let some rich have the disease. He tried to bring in the concept of empathy to describe the seriousness of the problem. We don't care until it's our problem - Simple. One day you see stories of friends going on short trips, posts about moving abroad and the next day it's DEATH. A friend died recently. We studied together for 4 years, had fun, cleared exams, and walked into our paths. Not everyone is bound to stay connected, life gets along the way and we miss staying in touch. We o...
