I have been thinking a lot lately about the world; about the way that the systems are arranged, the challenges in reconciling so many opposites, both on paper, and in my heart. We live in a tension that is constantly defying my innate desire for answers.
If there is one thing that I have learned lately, it is that I see in part. I have come to an awareness of my own arrogence, so to speak, that allows me to believe that I, with my limited understanding, can speak of things of which I understand so little. Even trying to process history, African History, to be specific has changed the way that I look at life. Nothing is really that black and white, although it is our human tendancy, or at least mine, to want to quantify and qualify things. I have come to conclusion that the reality is that underneath all of the foreign policy, the economics, and the international affairs, we are human, and despite our best efforts, have a very real human nature with which to contend.
I have loved this journey, this process of engaging in life on so many different levels; one day, talking about GMOs and the next about the interactions between nations throughout time. Then, talking about light, and the way in which it magnifies and reflects, the atomic design. I am surprised that Chemistry occupies my thoughts, that is definitely a miracle. I ruled out studying science in any way shape or form in the ignorance of my youth, and funnily enough, here I am. Not for love of knowledge, not for belief in the majesty of technology. No. Because everything, really, exists in and through relationship; chemistry can testify to that. My love and hope for the nations, for the oppressed, for the ones in our world who don’t know hope in this lifetime has brought me full circle; here I am.