There wasn’t a good choice at all but its like aid work the world over Felix…there are just so many mouths to feed and only so much food to go around, so much money and only so many people who feel it deep in their hearts to play a role with their own world so filled with it's own trials and tribulations. We've all heard this before. Yet what do you do? Do you do nothing and be complacent, pleased that you alone have enough food or do you share with your elite friends the abundance of your well tended gardens or do you recognize that you can only help them one at a time…and step up and do the best you can for as many as you can.
This...is the good work Felix.
And he smiled…thanked me…acknowledged that I was older than he was (that hurt) and shook his head that he is pained with all of this…that there is never ever enough to go around and never wants to be the one to decide ever again who leaves with a starburst coloured memory, a piece of bread, the grain or flour aid organizations dole out…or who will leave empty handed, forced to endure another day with an empty stomach
In this lesson the teacher was also the student.
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