Imagine being a celebrity

When I was younger I used to imagine what it would be like to be a celebrity. Imagine having more money than anyone around you. Imagine everywhere you go people recognising you and greeting you. Imagine everyone wanting to be your friend and spend time with you. Imagine people wanting your photo. Wanting to touch you. Wanting to hear you say hello to them. Crowds gathering around you just looking at you.

In Kenya I have more money than anyone around me. Everywhere I go around here people recognise me and greet me. People want to be my friend and spend time with me. People want to take my photo. Want to touch me, want me to say hello to them, want me to give them things. When in a new place, crowds gather around and stare.

What as a child sounds like the most amazing thing in the world is actually something that is really difficult to deal with in everyday life. 
Sure the hellos and the smiles and friendliness I wouldn't change for the world.  But there are other aspects that aren't so great.

Seeing so much need and being asked for things so often and yet in reality I can't always give. I want to but I know that giving can actually create more problems then it solves. Once you start randomly giving it is very difficult to stop, or to explain why you gave to some and not others. I will never have enough money to give to all the needs I see. 

For people in Kenya, muzungu = money. Muzungus carry bags, they have nice clothes, they drink out of bottles and they have cars and phones. There is constantly a niggle in the back of the mind reminding that this is one of the main reasons why I get so much attention. Even for people who I am genuinely good friends with there is an obvious difference between us.  

I think the celebrity fantasy is exactly that. It brings a great deal of responsibility and unsurity. It makes you wonder regularly if you are doing the right thing and continually ask the question 'why me',  'why not them!?'

Humans are selfish and we don't do the fundamental things that God asks of us. These problems, this unfairness that I see is not something that can be fully resolved in todays world. 
We can and we should take as many steps as we can to help out and to give. We can provide some solutions to many of the problems here.

But in reality the real lasting solution to these problems, to this unfairness will be the return of Jesus.

Rev 21:4 ' He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the former things have passed away".