Freedom

It is a concept that we take for granted every day.  Free to wear what we want, free to think and feel what we feel, free to have our own personality and opinions.  Free it is such a small word but such a big concept.  I learned last night that to this day some people still are taken and sold into slavery. 
I saw a movie called I am Slave and it was a movie based on the life of a girl taken from her home in the Nuba mountians, her village was raided and many people were killed...all the children taken and sold into slavery.  The movie is a dramatic retelling of her true life story, she was a slave from the time she was 12 until she was 18 and was sent to work for her owner's cousin in London.  There she escaped and gained her freedom.  She was there to talk after the film and to hear her talk about her experiences and her life makes me feel like i have spent the last 30 years of my life complaining and taking for granted the basic freedoms I have. 
The actress playing Malia, Wunmi Mosaku, said it best herself, she was moved by the story and felt that she had to play this part to bring light to this very overlooked issue but at the same time she felt guilty that she is benefiting from Malia's pain. 
I have all this freedom and privilege and I have never used it to help someone less fortunate than me.  I spend all my time moaning about how i am unhappy and i am not satisfied when people out there have no freedom at all.
Today's happiness project is to stop being so focused on myself and give happiness to someone who needs it more than me.