Secret Millionaire

I'm sitting here in my nice warm bed, and watching this new show called "Secret Millionaire". I don't know how long it's been on TV. Basically, they take multi-millionaires and have them follow the lives of people in need ie. homeless, Katrina victims who have not recovered from that one, etc.

Tonight they took a man who lives in California, and sent him to live in Las Vegas with only $45 for a week...the amount of a basic welfare check. He admitted to having at least $50 million. He is living in a roach infested motel, having to work off the $115 a week rent. He had no idea of how many people there are that are homeless, not the mention the number of teens who are homeless.

Wealthy people who have never had to worry about where their next meal, where the next car payment/house payment/electric bill payment, how they are going to tell their kids that there is no money for Christmas, have to eat a can of green beans because there is nothing else to eat, really need to go on this show and just see what the rest of the REAL world is like. They just can't comprehend what it's like to be without.

Now, having said this, the REAL world can't begin to comprehend what it would be like to not have to worry about paying the car payment/house payment/electric bill payment, what they are going to eat next and when, having enough money to buy their kids anything they want anytime they want it, etc.

It is such a humbling TV show, because I thought I had it bad. You get so caught up in your situation and life that you can't see outside of that to see that there are others who are worse off.
I just hope it's as humbling to them also.