The Power of Procrastination: Free Rice Gives Back
Some months ago I wrote a posting extolling the virtues and pleasures of Freerice.com. For months, whenever I no longer felt like studying (read constantly), I jumped over to this wonderful little site, and increased my vocabulary while “helping” the poor souls of the world. Only, I kind of stopped thinking about where the animation rice I was winning was going, and concentrated on my score. The rice will get there, I thought, somehow. Magically.
Finally, I decided I would follow some of the links, to see how this program was doing. And I was shocked. Since the launch of the site, in October 2007, when I first posted about this little baby, 26,662,277,870 grains of rice have been donated. The World Food Program has initiated a program in which developed nations from around the world have committed to donate up to one dollar of every 100 of the GDP to alleviating world hunger.
But more important than these obscure facts is the practical realization of these dreams. Here is a video of the delivery of hundreds of tons of rice to Bangladesh. I was not able to get the video embedded on this site, but take a moment to examine the reality of your procrastination. This is one story that will make you feel good, and keep you coming back for more.
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