Hey! G8!

(Escribí este post en inglés en pos de la difusión dado que la mayoría de las personas que leen mi blog son angloparlantes y no hispanoparlantes a la vez. No tengo tiempo para publicar en español esta vez y de verdad lo siento mil. Si les interesa mucho hagan click aquí para que se hagan una idea :) Mil disculpas!)

I know I said I was gonna be away. I also know that I had almost promised myself today my eyes would be fixed on the pages of my books. But here I am, posting, cuz I'm overwhelmed... I'm mentally and spiritually restless.

When I got to my friends' place last night one of'em was watching MTV. She was watching the special broadcast of the Live 8 series of concerts. 9 concerts around the world, 150 artists, gathered with just one purpose:

Make poverty history

The G8 is meeting this 6th of July in Scotland and the idea of the Live 8 is that we can all (everybody who wants to) demand from them the end of poverty.
This morning when I woke up and went downstairs my friend Amalia told me Live 8 was about to begin. We had MTV tuned on all day, watching the different concerts (that had actually been on July 2nd) in those different nations. There were no ads, just campaign, 100%. I can't even remember all the different mottos, but I remember they were very powerful:

G8 be great
G8 the world is watching
Enough is enough
We don't want your money, we want your name
They've given their names. Give yours now. Sign the Live 8 list

My heart ached so many times as I watched the TV... this was yet another time when I have agreed with Cypher (The Matrix): "ignorance is a bliss"... I didn't know a child dies every three seconds, of extreme poverty. I didn't know 50000 people die every day of extreme poverty. In Africa. How can the place where u'r born determine u'r right/chance to live?
But also my heart was happy and received a shower of joy when I saw all those people united for the same cause. Not asking for money, not asking for charity, asking for justice, for our brothers and sisters.
Another movie I though of while watching Live 8 was The Lord of The Rings, The Two Towers. I remembered that part when Sam tells Frodo about heroes and how they've all held on to something to go on, and Frodo asks what are they holding on to. And then Sam told him: "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."
I got this shower of love and hope today and I'm so thankful for it. It was so needed.
There is some good on this world and today I saw on TV millions of people believing and fighting for it. I'm now one more :)
If u wanna be a fighter also sign the letter for Bush from One here, u have time till the 5th I guess.
IDK if it's too late to sign the Live 8 list, but in case u wanna give it a shot (c'mon! it won't take long) u can visit their site.