We are all human-in some cases more than others. When it comes to seeing others’ miseries and sufferings, the bell inside out human brain rings and we spur in action trying to do something to help out the helpless. We have seen that time and again, the helping hand reaching to aid the needy, the poor and the suffering.

There is human in all of us. Even though the bell does not ring all the time or it is just as temporary as the images on TV. The matter of fact is that our memory is short in remembering. Regardless of how or what is happening around us or around the world. It is apparent the as long as the media is attached to the story, so are we. When the media/news decides to cover something else -the stories of the misery and the suffering ends as if it never existed or does not continue to exist tomorrow.

We are all so much busy in our own lives that we can only pay attention to life if it were on our TV screens. Otherwise it does not exist. It is not the we are lacking compassion -it is just the life we live. Last year’s Tsunami and this year’s hurricane are price examples of such occasions. Our feelings of sympathy and trying to help the less fortunate of us rise again and again -when we see them on our TV screen screaming for help. We all rush to our computers and phones to donate what we can to help them.

We all hope that the media is bringing the stories to life as a matter of good faith and not in favor of how they can raise their ratings – but we all know the facts. We all can look in our own cities and neighborhoods and find the same “unfortunate and poor” living in our own city. We don’t need a tragic event to remind us of that. But the reality is -it is only then (an event) that we wake up -though shortly -that people do live in those situations and they do need our help -not just in case of an event, but all through out the year.