What If That Child Was You

I couldn’t hold this in till sunrise... some truths demand to be spoken now.

While I was scrolling through LinkedIn an hour back, a single post stopped me cold. “A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds.” I blinked, reread it. Poor nutrition and hunger kill 3.1 million children every year. Not from war, not from disease but from empty stomachs.

My chest tightened. Here I was, debating dinner choices, complaining about taste, tossing leftovers while tiny lives fade away because they simply lacked a spoonful of food.

I felt ashamed.

But what more can we really do? We can start by caring. By not looking away. We can give money, time or a kind word. We can donate to feed a child, support those doing the work on the ground, and speak up when others stay silent. We can waste less, and teach our children to do the same.

Remember! No child deserves to die because of an empty plate.

And I promise, from tonight, that I’ll never see food the same way again.