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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rick Julian who wrote (84786)8/3/2000 9:52:49 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Well, perhaps I am too close to too many families destroyed by people deciding that their dreams were more important than the unit created by marriage and the bearing of children. Somewhere in there, you seemed to make the assumption that this person went after his (or her) own dream while somehow still maintaining his commitment to the unit, and what I have viewed among my acquaintances is often the sacrificing of the overall health of the unit to meet the individuals desires.

The devastation left behind is incredibly painful-- for all but the one who is off busy "living". It has nothing to do with SUVs or private schools. Nor does it have anything to do, really, with creative or altruistic actions.

This is a very different thing than the actions of a Rosa Parks or a Karen Silkwood- who probably suffered from fear and doubt, but believed in the rightness of what they had to do. Their actions are more an assumption of additional responsibility than an abdication of it.

I think people get very, very confused about this. And those who proclaim the rightness and joy of damning torpedoes, may find what they meant is completely misinterpreted by people looking for reasons to justify what is, in the end, only selfishness.
It's not always necessary to create tsunamis to live life with integrity and courage or to cause change.
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