a weekend of tears...

it was a weekend of tears for me. no, nothing tragic happened but it was the emotional side was getting the better of me. and it was not just tears rolling down my eyes but i was practically sobbing.

it all began with watching a documentary on BBCWorld. The journalist who opened the eyes of the world to the famine in Ethiopia in 1984, returned to that land for a follow-up documentary.

his documentary began from uncovering the famine to the various charity events which took place all around the world i.e. Band Aid's do they know it's christmas to LIVE AID & those marathon all over the world to help the famine victims. my eyes started to well up when i saw those pictures of young children who were mal-nourished. it got worse when pictures of a young boy trying to stand-up. i started to cry when the documentary went on to tell a story about a girl who everyone thought was dead due to mal-nourished. she had not eaten in days. her father was asked to bury her in a cold grave but he did not because he could feel that she was still warm. that little girl survived the famine and now, she is a grown woman and healthy. she lived with her father up a hill and she is financially supported by a Canadian reporter. it was tears of joy for me at the end of the documentary until later that night when i was watching the Oprah Winfrey Show.

I had a 30 minutes of laughter from watching the Kumars at No.42. Then, Oprah came on to interview a firefighter who was rescued by his fellow workers in a fire. He thought he almost died but because of his fellow workers, he survived to see his children grow up. That brought tears to my eyes and it got worse until Oprah featured a story about the death of Matt Stepanek, who died this June from a rare muscular disorder, i think. He lived with a breathing support system which goes wherever he goes. However, despite all that, Matt was a talented and gifted individual. He has written books & poems.

You have to watch the shows to understand why I was in tears and was practically sobbing. It is situations like this that make you realise that the issues that you have are just menial.