CREATIVITY, IDEAS, & CONVICTIONS

A new friend of mine, Adrian Ramos, is in Haiti. You can read his BLOG and enjoy his simple yet challenging perspective. Here is an excerpt:

Food, art, music, philosophy, religion, are all so different in so many corners of the globe. Everytime we interact with these things we expand our perspective, and hopefully we are humbled as we realize that the thing we are trying to understand and define is much larger than we gave it credit for.
Here, to see people suffer daily in unimaginable ways, to see them struggle and survive, to learn their customs, reminds me that each night I struggle to fall asleep because my heater is turned up too high, someone in the world is sleeping on the ground and praying it doesnt rain. This doesn’t cause me guilt, but reminds me that the world is big, and that being human is not synonymous with having luxuries and sophisticating oneself. To be human is to have dignity, honor, love, hope, joy, pain, and loyalty; and these things are deeper, stronger, and older than clothes, soap, and air conditioning. They were embedded deep within our blueprints and withstand oppression and flourish in cruel environments. - Adrian Ramos