C&C - Choices and Cyclones
In the space of a few days, I've met up 2 dear friends who I will possibly not see for the next half a year. And as I am staring out into the great big ocean in front of me, I feel like a little turtle.. freshly hatched from the egg, and had just gained enough strength to swim out. I am weak now, but the ocean will train my flippers. My shell I will carry with me all my life, but it is both my comfort zone and safety place, as well as my very present burden.
The ocean is huge. And i'm not sure what is out there. It's scary when I think of it.
I can't help but wonder, are we the sum of the choices we make in our lives? One has chosen to give his time to India, one in the civil service, one in a hospital, one in a women's shelter in Thailand, one in a local NGO. And me? small-time FSC out there in Planet East. Maybe our paths were long-determined by choices we made long ago. Just maybe.
But then again, do we really have choice? The cyclone in Myanmar begs the question. Many die without ever getting to choose their lives. How to live. What to do. And of course, they didn't choose a screwed up Government who doesn't give a shit that 50,000 die. All the better, 50,000 less people to vote against them in the referendum. No one has a proper list of eligible voters anyway.
In my mind pops up the faces of people I met in Yangon last year. Helen, Song, Honey-Win, Ling Way. What are their lives like now? Are their lives also the sum of the choices they made earlier in life?
The ocean is huge. And i'm not sure what is out there. It's scary when I think of it.
I can't help but wonder, are we the sum of the choices we make in our lives? One has chosen to give his time to India, one in the civil service, one in a hospital, one in a women's shelter in Thailand, one in a local NGO. And me? small-time FSC out there in Planet East. Maybe our paths were long-determined by choices we made long ago. Just maybe.
But then again, do we really have choice? The cyclone in Myanmar begs the question. Many die without ever getting to choose their lives. How to live. What to do. And of course, they didn't choose a screwed up Government who doesn't give a shit that 50,000 die. All the better, 50,000 less people to vote against them in the referendum. No one has a proper list of eligible voters anyway.
In my mind pops up the faces of people I met in Yangon last year. Helen, Song, Honey-Win, Ling Way. What are their lives like now? Are their lives also the sum of the choices they made earlier in life?
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