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Some days you feel kinda like a tiger with very sharp claws. Other days you may be a little slow and awkward, and wish you'd just held your tongue.

I'm just saying.

Last night I watched part of a documentary about HIV and AIDS in Zambia, Africa. It was heartbreaking. So many children and wives, mothers and husbands, grandmothers, babies... Lost.

If you've ever seen someone frail and thin from disease, their bones delicate within the casing of their skin and wondered how they could still be alive.... That's what it is. If you've ever wondered what advances in medicine can do for the world, and what sex education can do for people.... It can do a lot. It can save babies.

I'm a fairly well-read person who likes to keep somewhat up to date on the affairs of the world but I have to admit that I feel totally and completely unable to comprehend the scope of savagery that is the effect of the HIV and AIDS viruses. There are millions of people affected, and thousands of people dying every day.

I'm not sure what I can do about it, but if nothing else I can recommend watching The Lazarus Affect. Although this short documentary is completely focused on how to keep these viruses from killing people (through the administering of medications), I'd like to mention that there is a lot of work being done to help keep people from being infected in the first place. Knowledge is power. Education is key.

And that is all for this week's episode of Friday Thoughts! Enjoy your weekend, relax, and change the world.

Zambia map courtesy of nationsonline.org (I have not checked out this website)

Zambian woman courtesy of OffTheBeatenTrack

Zambia Dancer courtesy of TheStateDepartment