Why Do We Care Or Not Care?

For all the death and destruction around the globe, there is a story at Yahoo News, which tells us why we care, when tragedies occur. So as bad as humans can be, there is this positive trait that we have as part of our hardwiring.
I Hope you Enjoy the story:

The dire situations in cyclone-battered Myanmar and quake-tossed southwestern China and the impulse of many to offer relief have a lot to do with human nature. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors likely did it, and non-human primates do it. We are hard-wired to help others, to drop everything in crisis situations, scientists say.

"People do really respond in these crisis situations where it's really a short-term matter of life or death," said Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. The motivation to give dates back to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, he said. Some non-human primates also have been shown to step in during a crisis to help their kin or even humans.

Myanmar is an acute case, with the death toll at nearly 78,000, though expected to surpass 100,000, and up to 2.5 million people considered severely affected. And major relief efforts have mounted since Cyclone Nargis struck on May 2. In China, millions of dollars are also pouring into Sichuan Province, where more than 34,000 are reported dead and 4.8 million were left homeless from the recent earthquake and its aftershocks.

Several factors make acute disasters like these different from other human hardships, including their short-term nature, widespread images that tug at our heart strings, and the high benefits relative to costs of helping.

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A Very Special Persons Poems

This post is a personal post of mine, and is some of the writings of my young lady, Melissa. Melissa is an avid reader and writer. She has a particular interest in serial killers, and those kind of non-ficton and fiction books, and movies. She had been working on a detective/serial killer book for quite some time now, and last night she said she was going to take a little break and write some poetry, light and dark, to clean out her mind and get ready to get back and finish the book.

So it is my pleasure to reveal her first two poems, as she explores a different side of her mind. I hope you like this small escape:

Into The Midnight Blues

And then you feel the breeze of life, and
what you really are,
and how if fate were different, you
could've been a star.

You ponder on your youth, as
if you could've changed,
all the wasted time you spent,
planning to rearrange.

All the mistakes you were about to make,
and those you actually did,
as if you truly had a choice, when
you were only just a kid.

And so you do accept the fact, that
in your downhill years,
somehow your dreams and life escaped you,
as you mourn and shed some tears.


The second one is a bit of a lash out with some humor, over a incident with a former 26 year old, employee, friend, and model, named Lacey, and a misunderstanding of monstrous proportions, and was dredge up again after a visit by said person....I was in trouble--deep!!small nervous laughter!!
Anyway here is the slam on me, and I told her I would post it as well, even though it is totally undeserved (that's my Truth and I'm sticking to it) !! ;) :)

You know that All you can ever do,
is oggle all those Blondes,
and the closest you'll ever come to one,
is being some ones john.

You try so hard, to pretend, that
you're really all of That,
The truth be told unfortunately,
your just a door-floor mat.

Although you can be charming,
and chivalrous as can be,
Deep down you're just a lonely man,
wishing to be free.

Well that's it. Thank you for letting me indulge this special person, as we approach Valentine's Day, and all that it means to people:
looking for love, finding love, and keeping love alive!!