It's depressing to read about what suffering children in this age are going through. Even tougher still to reconcile that the world isn't evil, but rather those who inhabit this parched earth. Read this article from ABC News and this webpage about the suffering children of Central Asia. Made me feel a tinge of guilt that I've been griping about difficulties in my life when they're so trivial as compared to the fate other people (children at that!) have to suffer :'-((