Lighten up...
Oct. 27th, 2014 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smittenbyuIt was December 1995 issue, never forget. Just 6 months before high school graduation. National Geographic. A special. It confirmed and inspired me to decide my major and show an actual interest in pursuing college. She was Dr. Jane Goodall. I didn't read the whole article. Just the part she wrote. Her thoughts and her wishes for the world. It changed my life. It instilled in me what I wanted to do.
Sure, I have not saved the world as my ambition was back then! ha! Nowhere close! Idealism went into deep hibernation once I actually started college and looked at all the problems we face. But I always am grateful for her words. Her kindness, her beliefs. She instilled in a deep sense of hope for a better future. That we can achieve better if we put our minds to it. We are capable, no matter which part of the world. That we are no better than the other, just a bunch of human beings with strengths to help problem solve.
Anyway, that's all serious and an utopia. Just watched this and had to laugh!
Sure, I have not saved the world as my ambition was back then! ha! Nowhere close! Idealism went into deep hibernation once I actually started college and looked at all the problems we face. But I always am grateful for her words. Her kindness, her beliefs. She instilled in a deep sense of hope for a better future. That we can achieve better if we put our minds to it. We are capable, no matter which part of the world. That we are no better than the other, just a bunch of human beings with strengths to help problem solve.
Anyway, that's all serious and an utopia. Just watched this and had to laugh!
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