I caught this video on CNN about a man who tried to climb K2 in Pakistan. His name is Greg Mortenson and he didn’t make it to the top but got injured, almost died and had to be nursed back to health in a small Pakistan village. He impressed me, not because he climbed K2, but because of how he spent his recovery time. He noticed how the village lacked a proper school. He saw kids writing school lessons in the dirt with sticks! So he helped build them a school. And then he built another one in a different village and has kept going and has now built 78 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan!
There are so many causes in this world that need attention but it seems like some of us have to see the need with our own two eyes before we truly believe something should be done. Or we need to see it before we believe that we should be the ones to do something. Sometimes we don’t embrace compassion until it hits us right between the eyes. But even then some people still don’t embrace it.
