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thanks for taking the time to articulate this so well. in reflecting on it, i realize i find it too easy to look beyond the people i can reach and affect immediately, just by being thoughtful, considerate, pleasant, and compassionate. it’s a most excellent (and difficult) challenge to try to become the people we expect others to be. i think it will be worth the energy to pursue.
I love you, Meg Fowler. Love! You! For your brilliance, optimism, love and guts. You are amazing :)
“…That we become the people we expect others to be.”
It’s the Golden Rule (or at least the one I grew up with in my personal faith) I teach my children.
We have ONE *yes, just one* rule in the family. That is LOVE ONE ANOTHER. So much falls under that. “Are you violating your sister’s space?” – Show love and back off. “Did you interrupt your brother?” – Show love and listen. “Did you snatch that toy?” – Show love and ask nicely. “Did you cut in line?” – Show love and let someone else go first.
It applies to everything.
I too think we disregard the domestic for the foreign b/c the domestic is in OUR court. Because OUR court is a bit too personal for us to see the game we have going on here … we can’t step back far enough to see its impact. But I believe the impact is large. Mine is at least 3 fold.
Suki Fuller pointed me here because she read your article and then read mine, http://chrisabraham.com/2008/02/23/save-yourself-then-save-the-whales/
I believe you did a much better job putting words to it. I went the sensational route because when I originally wrote it back in April, 2005, I called it Don’t Save the Whales.