"You shall no longer take things at second or third hand,
nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self"
Walt Whitman
I have started my own kind of journey. My journey for truth, for wisdom, for knowledge. I have spent far too long of my life taking what other people said at face value. I have become a highly eudcated 22 year old who knows nothing. The more I study, the more I see of the world and things in it, the less I realize I know. I have decided to no longer let other people tell me what things say. I'm not going to let other educated people inform me what the Qu'ran says, I'm reading it for myself. I'm not going to let politicians tell what policies reflect Communism, I shall read the Communist Manifesto. The world is full of many peoples and many understandings of the way things are. Who am I to say that my way, the way that I have grown up with, is the right one?
This is not to say that I will not share, discuss, and take in the opinions of those that I know and respect. That would be foolish. However, I have decided that I must not simply let others tell me what things are, and how I am to believe.
3 comments:
yaaaaaay sara!
p.s. i like knowing what a dagoba is. it makes me feel in the know.
also, i am 100% with you, no matter the naysayers. learning is swell!
hehehehe I feel like I have some magical secret using the word dagoba.
I appreciate the efforts to overcome ethnocentrism, Sara. Don't get rid of those things, because when I get back I'm borrowing them.
It's difficult to truly see things from another point of view. I'm in France, but I'm of America... America is comfort for me, no matter how beautiful France is. Accepting the two alongside each other is hard going.
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