After all I won't let go until you're safe and sound

Artist- Sheryl Crow
Song of the day- Safe and Sound

It's pretty easy for me to find joy in this world in fact my reaction to pretty much any type of situation is to laugh. Granted it is often an uncomfortable I don't know what to do type of laugh but there's so much about life that is worth laughing, worth not dreading, worth getting through and remember to enjoy, not take too seriously.

And it's easy to forget or put at a distance the fact that joy is for some never to be experienced. That their life has been about survival and war and death and tragedy. I want to forget this exists so badly, but hearing the stories of famine and death in Kenya and all over Africa, the worst the world has seen in ages, I cannot laugh it off. I somehow feel helpless and privileged and disgusted by all I have and all i'm holding onto and being so far away from a fixable problem and it feeling so close thanks to technology. It's happening right now in front of our faces and we have no excuse to not fix it. It makes me want to get up and go, to forget the education I am working towards so I can hold a dying child and maybe find a way to stop it or at least hold them find the love find the joy be the love be the joy they will never experience. I don't care about science I care about that and am thankful that science exists so this kind of death can be avoided, should be avoided. We cannot let ourselves be helpless like I am right now but must be the help the ambassadors the cure for these children for these families for these souls.

It makes me think of this song because it is empathetic, emotional and empowering at the same time. If you want to learn more about the situation in Africa check out the video and coverage from CNN below.







Maybe this is forever
Forever fades away
Like a rocket ascending into space
Could you not be sad
Could you not break down
After all I won't let go o

[CHORUS:]
Until you're safe and sound
Until you're safe and sound

There's beauty in release
There's no one left to please
But you and me o I don't blame you for quitting
I know you really try
If only you could hang on through the night
I don't want to be lonely
I don't want to be scared
All our friends are waiting there

[CHORUS]

Feel like I could've held on
Feel like I could've let go
Feel like I could've helped you
Feel like I could've changed you
Feel like I could've held you
Feel like I could've hurt you
Feel like I was a stranger
Feel like I was an angel
Feel like I was a hero
Feel like I was a zero
Feel like I could have changed you
Feel like I could have healed you
Feel like I could have saved you
Feel like I should've heard you
Feel like I could have moved you
Feel like I could have changed you
Feel like I could have healed you
Feel like I should've told you
Feel like I could have loved you
Feel like I could have loved you
Feel like I could have loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I really loved you
Feel like I could've saved you
Feel like I could've saved you
Feel like I could've saved yo