HOPE FOR TWO SIDES?

I was reading a friends blog about struggles she has been enduring while working with Haiti relief. She inspired me to comment on her post, as it helped me make a connection to something that had happened recently here in tahoe. This is what i wrote back to her- which i feel can be something we can all relate to:

  I was just having a conversation with a kid on the lift chair. Well, he was older than a kid- we were talking about kids. Western kids. Every country has its own hoodlems to deal with, but, there is a major disconnect in the western hemi. After being subjected to a "shit-talk bandwagon" between two guys who knew nothing of eachother, and not connected to each other in any way, i wondered what it was they were missing. It was easy to determine that they had not been vicitims of real injustice in their lives. They hadn't had an experience that taught them the truth of the world. What is it to live without power on a daily basis, nor water, nor anything techy, etc. Their faces glued to their iphones, at 17, were just  glimpses of a hairline waiting to recede, or, a neck pain in the near future. What is it to have a bad day when trying to survive in Haiti as a resident, an aid worker, a journalis,t etc... clean clothes are such a commodity! A washer and dryer are items for the wealthy. A polluted and dirty river is the cleanest water outside of a plastic bottle. These bad days come and go, but in our retrospect, we can appreciate the beauty of the harsh environments we willingly subject ourselves to. There is a way to the other side for you and I. But, for the people who live with this lifestlye on a daily basis, and have no hopes for a cleaner future, despite the tremendous efforts you give, where is the other side? What is the other side? There is only one side for people in struggle, and that is the only side they know. Dealing with it. It makes me cringe at the thought of a society strapped in technological Armageddon. Will there ever be hope for the westerners that also seem to have one side; a side where they will never have to question these incongruances which I question?  There is so much more to the story than what i'm saying... but you catch my drift, right? Soon, perhaps, we can draw some sort of curtain, and there just may be another side for these amazing and strong willed people of Haiti, as well as those who lives exist along side suffering.