Depressing things make me sad.

So I was watching Edward Scissorhands for the billionth time and, just like every other time, I felt like bursting into tears. For those of which who haven't seen Edward Scissorhands, it is about a teenage boy who is a machine/human with scissors for hands. All throughout the movie he looks sad and scared and it makes me sad.

Another thing are world vision commercials. While watching the movie, the entire commercial break was practically a 5 hour commercial on all the starving kids in Africa. i hate seeing the clips of them crying, working or hearing their stories, so yeah, I hate the commercials all together. They make me feel horrible, because I am under 18 and cannot adopt or what ever you do.
I also feel bad because on one of the commercials it said that Canadians alone spend 30 million dollars on Christmas presents every year, and it is just going up year by year. 30 MILLION! With that money we could end world hunger all together.

Last year, a group of friends and I raised money for Japan after the tsunami. We called ourselves 'Money for the World' and with 3 can collections, one giant bake sale and a t-shirt sale, we raised around $900. I know I should be proud, but that wasn't enough. After we did that, we decided to raise money for homeless shelters and then cancer, but we never tried. Maybe we lost our strive, or we didn't care enough but I think the biggest reason is we were too lazy. Isn't that horrible? We were too lazy to help people who really needed  it!

I am going to do something. I don't know what I am going to do throughout the year - maybe help out at the soup kitchen - but next year for Christmas I am only asking for one present -  from each family member. I know I want to help out, but I'm still a kid - and ask my parents to donate the rest of the money they had saved up toward cancer. Or world vision.. I'm not too sure. All I know is I am done with sitting on the side lines as these little boys and girls watch as themselves,their family/friends and loved ones die right before their eyes. I'm going to make a change.