Do we really care about the common good?

Where are we heading and what do we want to become. We say we care about the common good? The few of us who do actually get out there and make a difference can be counted on our fingers. All the rest of us are just sitting on our butts watching the news and hearing the gossip about social problems. It is amazing how some people’s major concern in life is making sure they get through the day with some food while some others are mainly concerned about which coffee shop they’re going to head to and who they re going to meet. It is just different priorities and concerns. Just simply amazingly. This is how the contrast is in cairo. You go to coffee bean and tea leaf and you find lots of young people having coffee and sitting there for hours chatting their brains out while at the other side of town in some poor area are a group of unemployed men sitting on the Qahwa with a nice shisha breaking their brains down. The contrast is so great yet both seem to enjoy their time. The only difference is that those at coffee bean are hopeful and ambitious for a better future while those at the Qahwa have become apathetic at how things have become. They chose to continue to be unemployed although so many jobs are being created and people are needed to fill them. It is amazing how we all wish we could all contribute to the greater good but somehow we re no longer able because the contrast is so great that the engineer and doctor are unemployed and about to be criminals because life is so harsh and the bawab and askary are watching out for their daily bread while the cream of the cream of the society are concerned about the latest louis vuitton bag and prada suit or the limited edition of some exclusive brand they’ve come across on some celebrity in a magazine.