I'm a huge fan of covers. This is really worth listening to.
I was reading someone's blog just now and in a crux, her blog is really emotional, raw and something very real. I never really imagined her to be a girl who is facing so many problems, but I guess that's the way life is, isn't it? You will never know how the other person is really feeling.
Her blog really made me see how lucky I am, I've got parents who blesses me with a home, not just a house; they support me in whatever I choose to do, help me the best they can - financially and emotionally. But best thing is that they keep me grounded. Sometimes people have this idea of me being able to get and afford whatever I want. It's not true. My parents hardly spoil me. They spend when they find it necessary, like my education for example. They dont usually buy branded goods or jewellery or even things like musical instruments for me. I had to buy my first acoustic guitar using my own savings and my two classicals are gifts from my aunt and my latest acoustic is a gift from Ian.
I guess it has to do with my personality too. My parents brought the 3 of us up the same way and I seem to be the most 'cheap' out of us three musketeers. Haha. And I'm very proud of being cheap. (Like my mom, except she prefers the term wise rather than cheap)
It's changing a little now(about being cheap), now that I'm more exposed to the fashion industry and all. You really have to pay for design and quality, also there are so many ethical issues within the industry that it's so disturbing. Cheap labour.. human rights.. profits. But that's another issue. You have so many different grades of cotton (I never knew that cause I never gave much thought into it), 'fast' cotton that kills nature to 'slow' organic cotton.
One highly disturbing fact about the 'fast' producing cotton: Some where out there (I forgot the place, I think it's Argentina??), the government makes doctors, teachers, lawyers etc. pick cotton in the fields. If you think that's bad, they make kids who are meant to be in school, pick cotton too. They're given a very limited amount of protection. They're given no gloves, they can get cuts from the branches and very dry hands from the sun, they only wear slippers, again, no protection from whatever's on the ground and they are not given hats - sunburn.
They don't get to go to school? Nevermind. They are made to pick cotton in the fields? Nevermind. They don't get protection? Nevermind. They are given a 'goal' of how much cotton they have to pick and if it's not enough, they will have to continue till they reach the goal. How messed up is that. It's kids from the age of 12/13 doing these things. Seriously.
Okay, I have no idea why I jumped from talking about family to cotton. Hahaha. I should really be sleeping instead of blogging. I've got so much work to do that it's not even funny. Ugh.
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