Tweets for Iran

I like to tell myself that I am a rather informed person and I tend to sometimes give a shit about what's going on outside my own little perfect world, and it is at times like these that I start to worry that the perfection in my own little world might be ruined by the shit in the outside world. I remember during the summer when Russia invaded Georgia I stayed up until one or two in the morning watching CNN and reading news online, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, while most of the world was engulfed into the magnificence that was the Olympics. Since the whole Iran thing started I've been watching CNN on mute most of the time, and reading tweets from Iranians. While I was amazed at the fact that so many people have become involved and have tried to show support for the Iranians during these hard times, the the ignorance that some people are showing sometimes makes me lose faith in this world. 

For anyone that uses Twitter you might have noticed how some people's icons have turned green in support for Iran. One thing that caught my attention is that some people have, let's just say complained, for lack of a better word. They claim that there is no use in turning your picture green, that won't end the protests, or the violence, or fix the election. This is all true, but that one picture shows these thousands of people that someone out there actually cares about them, it shows them that somewhere, very far away, one person gives a shit about them, it shows them that these protests are not pointless, and their voices are heard. I live thousands of miles away from Iran and  I can't do anything for these people except spread the news about what's going on, and if that is the only thing I can do I want to make sure I do it. 

The fact that just by putting a hash tag of #iranelection in one of my tweets and someone from Iran can come across that message and maybe it will show them that someone out there cares, and it will give them hope to keep fighting. I can't even get close to imagining what it would be like if something like this happened here and wrecked my perfect world, but I know that I would like someone to care about me.

Someone posted this on Twitter today and it really moved me: We are all Iranians now. 

Here is a link to a post written by John Green, this is one of the best things I have read in a

 while: 

http://www.sparksflyup.com/2009/06/end-of-one-islam-lie.php