I am always fascinated with what countries are reading at least some of my material, even though it is more for my cathartic benefit that I write anything at all.
I saw that twice someone from Lesotho looked at this stuff (what stuff I don't know.) I didn't know much about that country except that it is landlocked within South Africa, about the size of Maryland. I learned subsequently that the median age there is around the early twenties, the average life span is in the thirties, and that around 30% of the population has HIV+/AIDS (those things all being related.)
I don't know what life is like there, but I felt a rush of sadness and some guilt at living a life that allows me to complain about totally unimportant stuff. I have already exceeded by a darn sight the average life span of folks there, and I although I have no wealth by American standards, and live paycheck to paycheck, I suspect my life would be seen as supremely privileged by Lesothans (sp?) any day of the week.
I wish you all well, and wish that in any day there is joy to feel.
I saw that twice someone from Lesotho looked at this stuff (what stuff I don't know.) I didn't know much about that country except that it is landlocked within South Africa, about the size of Maryland. I learned subsequently that the median age there is around the early twenties, the average life span is in the thirties, and that around 30% of the population has HIV+/AIDS (those things all being related.)
I don't know what life is like there, but I felt a rush of sadness and some guilt at living a life that allows me to complain about totally unimportant stuff. I have already exceeded by a darn sight the average life span of folks there, and I although I have no wealth by American standards, and live paycheck to paycheck, I suspect my life would be seen as supremely privileged by Lesothans (sp?) any day of the week.
I wish you all well, and wish that in any day there is joy to feel.
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