If only this was just a fun cartoon and not a too startlingly close depiction of how too many people view life…
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If only this was just a fun cartoon and not a too startlingly close depiction of how too many people view life…
![When the tears fall [worship song by tim hughes]](https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/timhughes.jpg?w=300&resize=40%2C40){kind=small}
![it's the end of the world as we [me, R.E.M. and Stephan Pastis] know it...](https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pearlsend.jpg?resize=40%2C40){kind=small}
For me, getting to know and become friends with people that are homeless is a huge paradigm shifter for me. I believe our culture teaches (at least ‘mericaland culture, but I am guessing this holds true in SA as well Brett) us to live in fear and expects us to be re-active with our fear rather than pro-active with it. This cartoon depicts well our re-action to the fear of not having enough. A pro-active reaction to that fear, for me, is recognizing that my homeless friends have so much less than I and are often much more content than myself. This helps me question how rational my fear of not having enough is. All of that said, it is a daily, sometimes hourly struggle not to succumb to the culturally expected re-active response to fear.
i am literally busy with a piece on racism that holds the same premise of friendship being key. Absolutely. Walking in other peoples’s shoes.