My next entry on the bucket list is something that most people spend their entire lives trying to avoid - exposure to war and tragedy. In my defense, however, I insist that no human being can truly experience the totality of existence without living in a region whereby they must look directly into the eye of the horrors than men are capable of.
Most of us here in the United States (and the Western world in general) have it pretty easy. Food is readily available, shelter is rarely a problem and, even in the midst of a recession, we can always find at least a poorly paying job in order to keep ourselves alive. I am not arguing that we don’t have our own degree of strife, poverty and violence, but it is simply not at the same level that people in war zones or famine-stricken countries have to deal with.
