Paris Is Not An Island - Page 3
Oh, and here's one more beef I have with the whole situation....why do we need to see "various selfless celebrities" going about the world "rescuing" the world's poor? Like I said, I'm all for publicity for a cause, but I have a feeling that many of these celebrities treat these things as simply another photo-op, swoop in and pose and look concerned and then never go back again, leaving people hanging with nothing but empty promises.
Why do so many celebrities (not all, but many) need a camera in their face to do a good deed? Do people have to be rewarded (in this case with publicity) when they do something good? What happened to doing one's good deeds in secret? Yes, there are times when you do need a famous face to bring publicity to your cause, and there are a great deal of celebrities who are attached to various causes and do great things for them. But for some, that is all it is....just loaning their face, just doing a photo-op, just giving a soundbite and going home.
Paris, I certainly hope that you can do some good with your trip. I wish you the best and I hope you have a safe journey. Just remember...when you leave Rwanda, all those people you met there have to stay there. Don't get back to your clubs and your gated paparazzi-free community and forget about all of what you saw and learned....if you truly want to be a changed woman, that is. Remember these words by John Donne:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.  (Meditation XVII)
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