I wish I could be someone else. Someone who isn't so obsessed with the world's problems. Someone who lived a simple life rather than dedicating it to struggling against all the injustice in the world. Someone who could make more decisions based on what I want rather than what God tells me or what I need to do. Someone who wanted to spend a semester abroad partying in Europe rather than studying conflict resolution in a distraught and impoverished African country. Someone who could think about taking a vacation in the Caribbean without their mind instantly jumping to the economic injustice of life and tourism in those nations, precluding all hopes of peaceful days spent on exotic beaches. Sometimes I wish I could just temporarily remove the awareness from my brain and temporarily live a small and blissfully ignorant life.
I don't actually want that, but man, wouldn't it be nice?
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