Over this past break I spent four days in New York City, and the most memorable place I went to was the United Nations headquarters. Inside, we visited and toured numerous displays and galleries. In one of the galleries a whole wall was plastered with different statistics, some enlightening quotes, but the majority were very unfortunate truths. As I looked over the wall, one statistic I read stunned me the most; ‘Globally, more money is spent developing a cure for male baldness than developing a cure for malaria.’
This statistic was extremely upsetting, and got me thinking about priorities. At what point did our priorities become so jumbled that we chose appearance over human life? I believe that today, more so than ever we need to take a serious look at our values and goals and life, and do some rearranging.
Unfortunately, as I look over my own priorities I find that many of them are in the wrong spot. Certainly not to the extreme of the example above, but there is a degree of bewilderment as I look over my own list of priorities.
For example, last month I was supposed to go out to dinner with my cousins, but instead I decided to stay home and finish my homework. It seems that it’s always been instilled that family comes first, but on numerous occasions I can recall putting other things before them. And, frankly, that’s very sad.
I’m not sure how to fix an issue like this, maybe better time management, but the truth is that I need to take a serious look at what matters to me the most, and center my time and effort on that.
Globally, the world may benefit from doing that same thing.
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