Another article I read online on the BBC website is a heart wrenching account of Pim, a Thai sex worker. For full article go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6360603.stm.

Pim’s story is about an author who wishes to describe what he does as clinically as possible, but raw, frightened emotions seep through like water seeping through cracks in walls. It seems like just another personal recount of a prostitute to a superficial observer; but it actually mirrors the situation of hundreds of thousands of people who do socially repulsive or taboo work to make ends meet or to feed a family.

I think, after reading a really insightful account, many of the readers might finally have an unsheltered view of the world around them without ignoring the many flaws of society. The obvious suffering is around everyone one of us, from the sweeper who cleans the floor to the whore you find for your entertainment. But again, people are so focused on only there on goals and other petty things that they don’t even see the suffering around them.

Pim’s case is not unordinary, frightful or even remotely horrifying because she is not the only prostitute, sweeper, mine worker or any of the other taboo jobs which people even refuse to discuss. It is here, in our society, and we have to face it; not shut our eyes and whistle. When small movements like the Nightlight that helped Pim come, it is a sign that society has had to have their attentions focused on these anti-social elements.

But still, there are countless out there who starve, cry but work all their lives at they mercy of someone else. Even if something is being done, it only has affected a small magnitude of the populace. When, if ever, will people firmly talk openly about the total rejection of these anti-social elements? When will we confront our own evil?

It will indeed be the hope of a better age without these.

I recently read this article online concerning our environment and that Australia announced a bold step last week in efforts to stave off global warming: banning incandescent light bulbs and replacing them with more efficient compact fluorescents nationwide. For full article go to http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3618.

What I thought of what Australia is doing such a seemingly massive scale project of banning incandescent bulbs throughout the country! Seems like a lot doesn’t it? But what Australia is doing is just a small part of reversing mankind’s blatant, unconcerned and harmful eons of damage to the environment, earth and most importantly, our lives itself. After many, many years, when the signs of a protesting earth are getting more obvious and visible to us, we are finally doing something. How many environmentalists, tsunamis, tornadoes and lives is it going to take to drill the idea in humans to do something far, far more drastic to stop Earth’s exorable steps to total disaster?

What everyone out there, like us, thinks that it is only him doing the littering, wasting of plastic; everyone else helps out in conserving so it doesn’t matter. Or maybe they think that just a little will not matter. After all, is just a small bit compared to what we hear is produced to pollute what we need to survive. Worst still, some people can’t even spare a thought to what there activities are doing to the Earth; their goal is their only concern.

Therein lies the mistake. The majority out there think that the comfortable lives they lead is more important than the very thing they are being supported by. Ignorance plays a big part in this. Many think that what their actions lead to is not their problem. Some go as far as to laugh at environmentalists, mock them, ridicule them. But when the hard truth is presented, they go white faced, tight lipped and numbed. But still they do nothing.

In our modern world, environmentalists are maybe the only true people left who fully understand the danger of mutual extinction of the Earth and mankind. Australia’s move is just the starting of trying to compassionate for the damages done to Earth. As education level and environmental awareness grows, people slowly put forth their energies to save themselves from the certain destruction the have for years concocted for themselves. But are they in time?

Only time and the future will say that.