Isn’t it strange, this Westernized perspective, the never ending mission, when you are in a position of privilege, this burden that individually one is on a journey of finding one’s passion. We are on this purposeful journey…to find purpose, seeking out those things that will make us feel complete. It’s a curious journey of constantly looking for something to make us feel whole. That happens when you have time and resources. The burden is like an rainy cloud that follows you. This existential crisis.
When you don’t have resources or means or privilege there’s still a burden, but is more of a snarky question about why someone isn’t trying harder to get to that place to get to that freedom of being able to find that passion. It take a lot of time, and it sure does make a lot of people feel less than. Why do we let this happen?
My greatest fear about these media friendly sound it’s about huge social issues like Truth in Reconciliation are that it’s just words and at the bottom of it our world is so driven by this idea of individual want and pursuit of individualized self-interest that it seems impossible to make a huge shift to giving that all up for another way. Are we ready to give up everything we know?
Love,
Michelle D.
nursingforsocialjustice 
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