Do Something Now

These days I have a CD in my car playing, among other songs, Nickelback's "When we stand together". I started by liking the music, which inspires a certain mood in me, a mood to do something, and as it often is, the music doesn't go alone. When I started understanding the words, they inspired me even more.

Has it ever happened to you that you see a beggar or a person in despair, but are so busy with your thoughts or plans that you simply pass by?

Does it happen to you that you watch the evening news with the report from battlefields, indignant at the government and crazy extremists, then turn the TV off, and go on about your daily routine without remembering even where it was?

How often do you throw away food leftovers from your table? 

How often do you throw away unopened food you bought but never ate?

Have you ever thought of doing something beyond fulfilling your own needs to help someone who cannot help him/herself? If you did, I believe sometimes you gave up just because you couldn't do much alone, and noone was there to support you or join you. I feel it myself sometimes.

                                                             
                                                                 
                                                                     NICKELBACK
                                                       "When We Stand Together"

One more depending on a prayer
And we all look away
People pretending everywhere
It's just another day
There's bullets flying through the air
And they still carry on
We watch it happen over there
And then just turn it off

We must stand together
There's no giving in
Hand in hand forever
That's when we all win

They tell us everything's alright
And we just go along
How can we fall asleep at night
When something's clearly wrong
When we could feed a starving world
With what we throw away
But all we serve are empty words
That always taste the same

The right thing to guide us
Is right here inside us
No one can divide us
When the light is nearly gone
But just like a heartbeat
The drumbeat carries on
And the drumbeat carries on
Just like a heart beat