Remember 38 Days Ago?

It has been a little over one month since the devastating Haitian earthquake on January 12. If you had just come back from some five week trip on a deserted island without any form of communication (does that place still exist?) you might never know there had been a quarter million deaths in a natural disaster in Haiti a short thirty-eight days ago.

The headline writers have all but forgotten the event. The more profitable story lines are still around though - fighting the Taliban in the -stans; North Korea, Iran and their nuclear programs; the ups and downs of stock exchanges and currencies. The only Haitian related story that seems to pop up every so often is the one about those damned US missionaries who attempted to fly out some children without the proper paper work. Our fast-paced society, bombarded with "news", seems to quickly forget certain world events and chooses to remember others.

This highlights the need for each of us to foster our curiosity. We should not just sit back and take the news and information fed to us. We should ask questions and go deeper. Find out more about the stories that interest us. Educate yourself. The news should be more than an entertaining movie that one sits, watches and quickly forgets. We need to understand the topics. If we don't, we should at least try to remember some of them. If not we will just end up lapping up whatever news the media tycoons choose to feed us and, if we let that happen, we will just be furthering the dumbing down of society.

Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!