We are the World

I have had a lot of time on my hands to just internet browse this summer. I usually wake up, eat breakfast and do a bit of net searching since my schedule makes it easier on me to sleep in and relax in the mornings. I came across a video today that I completely forgot existed.

Back in 2010, Haiti was hit with a 7Mw earthquake approximately 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
By January 24th, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded. There was an estimated three million people that were affected by the quake. The highest death count was estimated at 220,000.  The government of Haiti estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged.It destroyed everything and left so many with nothing.

I saw this one video back in 2010 where a bunch of music artists came together to raise awareness. It made me cry, and it made a big scene with the media, but then it died off. Like I said, I completely forgot about this video.

Well, I came across it again today, and it still gave me chills.  I think it was pretty cool that all these people came together to raise awareness for such an important cause.

"There comes a time when the world must come together as one."

 Some people don't find it important, or even our "duty" to help others in need. But if we take politics, money, territory, religion and anything else that causes a barrier out of the equation and just look at everyone as  human being, then we will see better in the world. I know if I needed a hand, I would hope that any human being would lend me a hand, because we are one and the same. 

Here are some people that did something.  They stepped up and made a difference. The coincidence about this is that what I am writing right now is an edit to my original post because after I had my own little flash back Friday with this video above, I went on my Facebook and saw this off the Invisible Children site. They had the title, #flashbackfriday. Not knowing we both were flashing back to the very same day, I decided to add their video to my blog post as well. 

Just food for thought...