My son-in-law shared this video with me a few days ago. I like the message, and appreciate it all the more, as shared by a young man barely in his 20's. He and I, despite being at very different stages of our lives and stories, relate to this understanding.
People with rigid hearts and stone-faced perspectives... when did you forget that you were young, once? When did you start thinking your determination to lock out the world you don't prefer was the right decision?
That's like asking an umbrella to stop the rain. It may appear to keep you dry -- but all around you, change is happening. That change is natural, real and dynamically alive.
And your umbrella... your choice to alienate people and choose silence as a solution - is an illusion. For you are, like everyone else - still getting wet. Soaked with life.
You're not drowning because somebody else has chosen to swim.
And all the silence and separation in the world still won't change the truth -
It's just water.
-C.D.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children
will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
- Marian Wright Edelman
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.
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