The Meaning Of World Hunger: The Importance Of Hunger?

Poverty is crucial

Poverty is crucial. Poverty is not having food to eat when you’re hungry. Poverty is not being able to see a doctor when you’re sick. Poverty is not receiving education. Poverty is sleeping on a cold concrete, flipping from side to side before being able to fall asleep. Poverty is fearing the future as you wake up everyday wishing you never did. Poverty is lack of freedom. Poverty is frailty.

There are currently 925 million people that are starving in the world today. It hurts to think about all of those people that do not make it through the night due to hunger. Hunger is, as explained in the oxford dictionary, “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by the need of food.” I chose this particular meaning because it’s the deeper meaning of hunger, the critical meaning. There are so many ways that world hunger can be eliminated. We can all work together, hand in hand to end

Nowadays, when people hear stories in relation to poverty, they pay no attention or think of it as something of rare importance. It’s as if poverty is a normal thing. It’s as if starvation is a normal lifestyle for the needy. What people these days don’t have is the ability to feel empathy towards the needy. They don’t comprehend that these needy people merrily have skin to protect their bones. What if we all try to step into the needy’s shoes and view life according to their footsteps. Maybe then we can comprehend how these people suffer. Maybe, just maybe.

There are many speeches, debates, stories, and etc. about poverty. People speak about poverty, write about poverty, fight in defines of the needy. But it’s just words, I don’t see actions. The problem here is that people speak more than they show. Actions speak more than words, a five letter sentence that has a deep meaning. SHOW instead of TELL. If only people did more, poverty would