the haves, and the have nots

the haves and the have nots

its so ridiculous....

i just saw a fur jacket- i think the price was 6000 euros approximately...

imagine....

there are people who strive towards having that jacket.... dream about it....

just imagine how beautiful you would be...

imagine how others would look at you....

what they would think of you....

the absolutely most fashionably modern woman...

in her fashionably modern designer fur jacket.... exquisite...

6000 euros...

moments after, i asked a cleaning woman for directions- a woman clearly defined by her clothing...

it was not the language that prevented us from connecting...

she did not even look at me- she knew I was trying to communicate with her...

it was the way in which it was 'acceptable' for her to act... she works for those who come to this piazza de spagne in rome...

people do not speak to her with a smile, looking her in the eyes... with a question....

her reaction was like that of a potato bug...

she reacted almost by curling up... hiding... retreating....

what´s wrong with a world that a woman, a human being, is so used to being treated as an inferior?

what is wrong with the world when there are pèople buying fur jackets completely for the legitimation of their being... when really it has absolutely nothing to do with their true depths...

why is this okay?

how can this be?

from one moment to the next...

you see the haves...

you see the have-nots...

we all see it... in different settings, places, extremes...

lives, realities, human beings...

how is this okay?

how did our ideals come to this?

...it hurts my heart...

and so now, i sit in a beautiful church...

to seek refuge for my soul, and for my heart for some moments...

to reflect...

and be thankful...

it is my first time kneeling in a pew...

i have always wanted to pray like this...

humbling...

and so i pray...

thank you for allowing me to be somewhere in between the haves and the have-nots...

i am lucky to be in the balance....