Four Generations Reflection

This film made me believe that anything can happen if you just make it happen yourself. This short film was about a man that bought a water buffalo and gave it to a poor family in China. He got the money from a man that said in his blog, that if someone donated $250 then he could buy a water buffalo and give it to a family, but he was saying it as a thing that could happen, not would. Well, this man, Robert Thompson, made it happen. He turned words into actions. I don't know, but for some reason, this gave me a feeling of hope. Hope for the world and everyone in it.
In Peter Singer's essay, The Singer Solution to World Poverty, he writes a lot about how, in order to be morally correct, people have to give all of their extra money to poor children around the world instead of using it yourself. This essay was similar to the film in a way in which things can happen and if money is donated, that money really could save a child, or even a family. In Singer's essay he also said that it really wouldn't hurt to give $200 to an overseas organization. This amount is almost the same as the water buffalo. So, this $200 really could help to save people. But, Singer also said that why can't you give even more than that? And that is true. If $200 can save a family's life, imagine what all that extra cash that you don't need would do to the world and everyone in it. I guess my view on Mr. Singer's essay, compared to my other post, has changed but things change in this world, and this is one of those things. But really, all I'm saying is just think about what can happen, and what a difference you really can make in this world, just by donating all that extra money that you don't need. Or you don't even have to donate all of your extra money, just $200 (or perhaps more would be even better). You could actually save people. It's just a matter of donating and making it happen. I'm not saying that you actually have to go out and buy a water buffalo and give it to a family in China, there are people who would do that for you, I'm just saying to make that first step by giving. It may not seem like you've done anything, by just giving money to some organization that you've hardly heard of, but in actuality something has been done. You've just saved lives by giving. I mean, who can't say that saving your own life is a great thing, but saving someone else's life? Now that's the greatest.