This week, after a long time of silence, another first world problems blog, courtesy of My Grandma Follows Me On Twitter by Craig and Marc Kielburger. I’m hoping to make you think about how you can act in response to the FYIs.
#34
The sunshine is so bright, I can’t see the movie on my tablet.
FYI:
Prince Rupert, B.C., averages 240 rainy days and 115 days a year with no glimpse of sun at all. Alert, Nunavut, has no glimpse of natural light except for a few minutes at midday for 1.5 months every winter.
#36
My Facebook feed is so full of invites that I missed by BFF’s birthday.
FYI:
There’s at least one person in your school who feels like they have no friends.
#37
My grandma follows me on Twitter.
FYI:
99.9% of grandmas would suffer a health crisis if they saw what you post on your social media of choice – or at least skip your plate in dealing out fresh apple cobbler on your next visit.
#38
I spent my whole birthday reading the birthday greetings from my 1,200 Facebook friends.
FYI:
Many children in developing countries don’t celebrate birthdays because they don’t know their date of their birth, and so have few legal rights in their country.
#40
I’m 40 and my parents still give me Christmas gifts from Santa Claus.
FYI:
If your parents think you’ve been a good kid they’re obviously not tracking you on Twitter like grandma does.
#41
They interrupted the finale of Survivor with news about an earthquake somewhere.
FYI:
They wouldn’t even interrupt the finale of Survivor for the Emergency Broadcast System.
#42
My kid’s hockey schedule is so demanding that we pre-book spaghetti night two months in advance.
FYI:
A third of Canadian kids can’t afford to play organized sports. Among them is the one who would have led the Leafs to win the 2009 Stanley Cup.
#46
I got a crummy gift for last year’s Christmas exchange, but my family refuses to raise the spending level above $50.
FYI:
With over 600,000 Canadian children (1 in 10) living below the poverty line, many families can’t afford gifts for the holiday season.
#47
My Ed Hardy t-shirts cost $60 each so I could only buy three.
FYI:
The cotton in one regular t-shirt requires a third of a pound of pesticides and uses 1,170 liters of water.
#49
I ran out of hot water in the shower after only 45 minutes.
FYI:
Of the more than 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water that Canadians use every day, almost 1,000 would be filled with hot water, accounting for over 20% of our total energy use.
