Life is war.  It is difficult, no matter where we live.  However, to help us keep things in perspective, when we’re annoyed with things like slow traffic or download times, here’s an excerpt from an article about the situation in Burma:

            “Thein Tun, a 44-year-old bus conductor in the village who is out of work because all the buses were destroyed, said food was scarce and the well water contaminated.

‘The diarrhea is coming,’ he said, echoing a grave concern among aid officials that the death toll could rise quickly if clean water and medicine does not arrive here soon.

Lacking alternatives, villagers are eating waterlogged bananas and other rotting fruit, he said.

‘Normally we have two meals,’ Thein Tun said. ‘Now we eat only once.’ Yet, of the two dozen people interviewed in the flattened villages and flooded rice fields along the road, none said they were starving.

Most rice reserves were soaked during the storm, but villagers have laid the grains on large plastic mats to dry. The rice has a musty smell, but farmers say they have no choice but to eat it.

‘It tastes bad, but if we can eat it we will,’ said Than Tun, 43, a rice farmer. ‘If not, we will throw it to the pigs.’”

            The link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/09/asia/scene.php