It's so easy to get caught up in temporary things that don’t really matters. It can seem to be the world to do a good job at work or with studies, to have time to go to the gym and enjoy yourself, to see friends and how you look. We easily take food, a place to live, education and medical care for granted without thinking of how many people there are out there who fights hard every day for just surviving. To get anything to eat, find a pair of shoes to walk in and have somewhere to spend the night.
It can be extremely rough to see how cruel and unfair the world sometimes is. There are so much you wonna do when you see all homeless, sick, poor and handicap people. For me the worst thing is watching the children who are growing up on the street without a family or anyone supporting or taking care of them. When you see the 5 year old kids with broken and dirty clothes, trying to sell flowers or berries to cars who lines up when the red light turns on, or begging for money with a just born baby in their lap, you don’t know if you shall scream, cry or just close your eyes?!
It's not much you need to do to put a smile on a child's face, normally fill my bag with pens, lollipops, small balls etc in bigger cities to hand out. Can’t be anything better than see how they shine up - so grateful for so little, but at the same time you just feel helpless knowing how little difference it really makes. In Cambodia I though got the opportunity to sponsor 3 siblings I met on the street. Reduced the travel account dramatically but could never have done anything better than helping the two twin brothers and their younger sister who lost their mum on the field.
Although it sometimes is extremely difficult to travel, you get a bigger perspective and constantly get reminded of what really matters. How blessed you are over having 2 legs and arms, a bed and dont have to go around constantly hungry...