Well, that’s Summer 2018 done and dusted, all two days of it.  Ha ha, twas short but fabulous.

You know, Snapchat got updated a couple months ago and apparently it bugged the crap out of everyone (bar me who doesn’t actually have a Snapchat account) and there was more uproar over it than there was over the gun laws in the United States.

I’m quite sure a heck of a lot more fuss was made over it than has yet been made over the crisis in Syria too and I wonder do any of Snapchat’s users even know about the civil war going on in Yemen?

Scrap that, how many of them have even heard that such a country exists?

It’s inherently wrong that we in the developed wealthy countries should become so absorbed and invested in our own interests that we forget or ignore people across the planet suffering daily.

We stuff our faces with shitty processed food til we’re ill, while families living in poverty struggle to feed their children.

We whine and moan about how crap our lives are when families in Syria, families just like ours, are grieving the loss of their Mum or Dad, their best friends, their kind neighbours and living in fear of ever more losses.

We buy our fancy Samsung phones or I-pads, our branded jeans or dresses, conveniently avoiding any questions as to who made them, what kind of conditions they work in and yet still complain about the price we have to pay, when the people who’ve made these products may never even be able to afford one.

We are an incredibly selfish race, thinking only of our own desires and wants: a nice house, a fancy car, more clothes, whiter teeth, holidays in the sun, a second car, yet more clothes, new furniture because we’re bored of the old…

There is a certain amount of it that is acceptable; we all work hard, we all want a good comfortable life, we all like to indulge in little pleasures, be it holidays abroad, clothes shopping or having a fancy car.

But at some point, we really need to pause and think: if the tables were turned and we were on the other side, ignored and forgotten, how would that feel?  What would we think of the people living such privileged lives, caring more about their precious social media apps than their fellow humans living through suffering that they could stop?

This is the kind of shit that really matters – shit that’s a whole lot more important some pesky changes to your phone app.

Ciao darlings!

Lizzie xxxx