Monday, May 07, 2007

Funny Faces and Serious Thoughts

First the funny faces:
FOTO SHOOT'S FUNNY FACES
The kids acting their silly selves during a recent photo shoot.

Quote from Wilfred Peterson reads:

Learn laughter from little children
by thinking their thoughts,
dreaming their dreams,
and playing their games.

Credits: kit - One Haute Momma by Jen Wilson; photo filter - All that Pops by Holly McCaig; vintage frame - by Nancy Comelab; cardboard - Crazy Cardboard Accents by Teresa Ferguson; alpha - Extreme Alpha by Shawna Clingerman; paper tears - by Traci Sims; fonts - Times New Roman, Adler, JW Artist's Manual Type

Now take a look at that photo and tell me that the kids will have a bright tomorrow. As parents, we want to take steps to ensure that the kids will have a future. A great future. That they will live to see the future. But we can only do so much, can we?

Out there is a big, bag world. A world that we don't have any control over. A world full of bad people. An imperfect world with thieves, murderers, diseases and drugs. Here at home, the government has set up jails to keep in the thieves and murderers. Hospitals have been set up to help alleviate diseases. But drugs and the people who are addicted to these awful things --- I don't know of any drug rehab program that has been successfully implemented here.

If only the government and NGOs out there who purport their stance on really caring for people would look to various drug rehab programs and set them up here, it would help tremendously with the future of these drug addicts who are, more often than not, children. Kids like mine up in that photo.

A successful drug rehab program would be one that provides experienced doctors and therapists to help with counseling, that customizes a program to detox the patient based on that person's history (as opposed to a standard set up without regard for the patient's medical history). This program must provide nice living quarters for the patient so as to bring a sense of peace and security for the patient. This is probably the most expensive thing to provide, but it would be so much easier for a patient to cope with his therapy if he had a beautiful place to relax and meditate.

It doesn't come cheap, that's for sure. But what is "cheap" compared to the future of the children?

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