are two women with such a determination and strength nourshied by their love to the world and human beings and the wish to change something, that I am struck each time I hear from them...
Yesterday night I came back from celebrating Danilo's birthday...tired and worn out...and started surfing the web, as I wasn't ready yet to go to bed. Many thoughts crossed my mind. I guess I had something like a minitiatur crisis, thinking of my life and objectives which I didn't manage to bring all together yet. I really admire those women, and they are an uncomparable source of inspiration and motivation for me.
It's really remarkable that always, when I read something like what happened to Julia or now to Marla (she just died in Iraq!!!!), about environmental and humanitarian/social destruction, I start crying. I am not a crybaby usually, but I cannot help it each time...and it's as if I feel then:"Oh yes, that is what REALLY bothers me, always has and always will" and not those little stupid (but yeah, socially still valid) problems of my life and not at any rate problems such as me not being able to buy new shoes or clothes because i don't have enough money....I feel at times so disgusted by that consumers life here in cities....I love the city, sure, especially the special social environment that emerges from it and the creative playground in Berlin.....but life gets superficial very easily and caught up in everyday routines which prevent us from looking further than our own little horizon....
When I read about these women, some sort of urgency in my feeling and further determination arises....
Thats when I know that it is right to study law. Or, alternatively, anything of interest and be just an activist. But I cannot bury the hope yet, to be able to be more effective if I have the means of a lawyer. I just don't have to lose the freshness and spontaneity and courage that makes those women go out and do something in the moment......
www.circleoflife.org (julia's webpage)
www.civicworldwide.org (marla's webpage)
check it out!~
geraldine
~lets reach each others hands and make a difference with whatever our special gift might be~
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