Is it fair to elude reality, to wonder, when the billions are fighting to survive? Is it just? Can Joy co-exist with genocide?
Can I conscienciously lose myself in poetry and stars and neverlands when my little brother is off to prison?
This is my dilemma. Does the law of moderation apply here? Or should we escape to our hundred-acre woods? Or leave them forever for the dust of sub-Saharan Africa?
I'd really like your considerations.
someone should be joyful for them. but joy doesn't have to deny the existence of pain.
ReplyDeleteI think that joy implies an uplifted condition of the spirit as opposed to the fleeting mood that is happiness. For one to have this condition of the soul, I believe he must espouse and be active in something that can change the hearts of murderers and give hope to the oppressed. That is not to say that he must eliminate the problem himself, but rather that he must be a part of a force of good and not one of evil or its child apathy.
ReplyDeleteThat you would ask these questions makes me think you're probably on the side of the good.