21-At this very Moment: Evan Hays

At this very moment nothing is happening.
I say this not out of apathy or contempt for the consideration of all the beauty our world offers, but out of the realization that an action is only as good as it yields. To get this prompt I read a few other blogs on the same subject, the one that stuck out to me most poignantly being Catherine Van Tatenhove's (Thanks for the insight by the way, if you are reading this). She mused very inquisitively that for every good thing happening, for every girl celebrating a beautiful fifth birthday, there is also a girl who's birthday is slipping by unnoticed. The world is in complete balance, and what I concluded is that seeing as how an action must be weighed not by its cause, but it's effect, then nothing is happening. Yes, one million people are in joy right now, one million dinners are being enjoyed, and for that one million serotonin receptors are stimulated. But on the contrast there are one million equally empty stomachs, and one million bloodied hands of war and strife, and perhaps even more struggling who have not changed their action, but learned to cope with it. The poverty of our world isn't changed, merely relegated into the shadows of the globe, shadows inevitably cast by the light of joy. So no, nothing is happening, the world turns and changes by every second, but all is for not. And the moment somethings starts, it also begins to end.