The World Needs A Good Crying

A few songs make me weepy. Among them are Billy Gilman's Oklahoma, and this one also by Billy Gilman -- Elisabeth. It's about a girl who won't live very long because of a disease she was born with, but still manages to touch people around her.

"It makes me wonder how life can give someone so much and take so much away..."

So sad, so true. I've gotten to know a lot of people who have so much in life materially speaking, but when it comes to what really counts, they don't have very much to speak of. Granted, they may be really intelligent or really rich or really good-looking but when HUMANITY is already on the line, they can't even come close to having a tinge of it. Conversely, the people I know who do have hearts are being pushed away. Unfortunately in our world nobody cares much about that organ.

"She believes there's always hope, and that's all she really has."

As opposed to most of us who have a lot, who have our whole lives ahead of us, there are some people in the world who are only hooking their sanity to hope.

"And when she cries, she cries in silence. But never for herself, she cries for everybody else..."

Being selfless like this is so unreal. Right now though, because of things like this one and this one happening, a lot of people can't help crying.