Various articles and posts and buzzfeeds around the internet have got me feeling a bit down lately. I'm surprised by what I see (shocked sometimes) and I wonder about my generation and our culture and all of the incredibly terrible things just outside my little bubble. I feel sad about what Vera will have to grow up seeing and hearing and (hopefully not) experiencing. I should probably be more pragmatic and not let it get to me, but sometimes it makes me ache with, i don't even know the emotion, disappointment?
I stumbled across this video, and I don't know what it was about these short 3 minutes, but I had tears in my eyes. Nothing that I can see about this video was made to encourage this thought, but I thought, "It's my job. We are supposed to teach Veronica how to be an adult. And we can teach her to see the beauty. A lot of her life will unfortunately be ugly, but she can choose to see all of the unsavory or all of the good. It is my job. I have to teach her to see the good. The best way I can teach that is to be present and observant and to see the good for myself. Now. Start now. "
It is maybe a silly thing. And those are the things I usually tear up over -silly, sentimental things. But it is a good sentiment I think.
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