Sunday, February 24, 2013

First World Problems read by Third World People

              So facebook is used for many things. Connecting with people you haven't seen in a while, sharing funny pictures, posting statuses about your mundane daily life, and sometimes, sharing really fascinating, powerful videos. About a week ago I was mindlessly scrolling through my facebook newsfeed when I stumbled upon this amazingly powerful one minute video.

                #firstworldproblems is something that has been trending on twitter for a long time (excuse me if that sentence isn't accurate I honestly don't have a twitter and I am absolutely clueless about twitter lingo). Anyway, a few example of these tweets are "When I go to my friends houses, I can't charge my iPhone because I have the 5 and they have the 4"  or "There's pulp in my pulp free orange juice" or "I just put lotion on my hands and now I can't open my gatorade". 
                Although most tweets of this nature are meant to be jokes and are admittedly sometimes funny, they also sometimes ring true in an embarrassing way. People will tweet things such as "when my finger gets tired from holding up my iPhone  and completely mean it. This video puts these so called 'problems' into perspective.
                Seeing a man standing in front of a building that is broken and could hardly qualify as a shack saying "I hate it when my house is so big, I need two wireless routers" really makes me think about my 'problems' and things that I complain about on a daily basis that really, I should be lucky to have at all. 
               Well, this has been my sappy post about people who have it a lot worse than us. I hope that if anything, people now think a little about what other people's lives are like before complaining about when they ask for no pickles but still get pickles.

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