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The missus was watching a programme on one of the lower order Sky channels tonight - I was pottering but the prog caught my eye.
It was about a little chinese girl who had a rare form of cancer which caused tumours all over her face, destroying one eye and hideously disfiguring her. Her father made the decision to have the tumours removed, despite the very real possibility that it could kill her (with aid from a British specialist).
She had the operations, and skin grafts to replace her lost nose and eye failed, leaving her badly disfigured but more comfortable than she was before. You know what, the poor kid never complained once. Her only aim was to go to school and be treated like a normal kid. She wanted to "one day go to university and have an important job". At the end of the programme, it turned out the cancer had spread to other parts of her body and her chances were pretty much nil. I freely admit needing to make the excuse 'I've got something in my eye...'
Made me think, here is a poor kid who hasn't got a cat in hell's chance to do the simple things like go to school and make her own way in the world. She'd give anything to live those simple dreams. Yet, here in the UK we foster an element of society who reject the chance to contribute to our society, prefering to 'take take take' and spend their lives watching daytime TV.
Cant help thinking that priorities are skewed here in the affluent west.
It was about a little chinese girl who had a rare form of cancer which caused tumours all over her face, destroying one eye and hideously disfiguring her. Her father made the decision to have the tumours removed, despite the very real possibility that it could kill her (with aid from a British specialist).
She had the operations, and skin grafts to replace her lost nose and eye failed, leaving her badly disfigured but more comfortable than she was before. You know what, the poor kid never complained once. Her only aim was to go to school and be treated like a normal kid. She wanted to "one day go to university and have an important job". At the end of the programme, it turned out the cancer had spread to other parts of her body and her chances were pretty much nil. I freely admit needing to make the excuse 'I've got something in my eye...'
Made me think, here is a poor kid who hasn't got a cat in hell's chance to do the simple things like go to school and make her own way in the world. She'd give anything to live those simple dreams. Yet, here in the UK we foster an element of society who reject the chance to contribute to our society, prefering to 'take take take' and spend their lives watching daytime TV.
Cant help thinking that priorities are skewed here in the affluent west.
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