We are all born and someday well all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isnt a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure to experience the world as a dynamic presence as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldnt be a distant symbol to me, it wouldnt be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I cant cool boiling waters in Russia. I cant be Picasso. I cant be Jesus. I cant save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.
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About Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie was a 20th-century American activist and diarist. Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Peace — The pursuit of harmony, reconciliation, and inner calm