disillusioned
Students of development should be optimists who still believe in the goodness of human kind. Some call us hippies, some floaters, others something else but everybody thinks we are trying to build castles from clouds. We are not supposed to be, like many other economists, driven by the desire for money. Our goal is not supposed to be a big paycheque but we should get our satisfaction from the success of others. It is true that it takes a certain amount of insanity to give up a high flying career in a bank or consultancy to go and live in a small village in
The problem is that to go out to teach and help one first has to learn. And the more you learn the less you have interest in going out to teach and help. We really don’t have the tools and guidelines to make a real difference. Still a hundred years ago, not even, cars we seen as something worth aiming for – imagine a world where everybody could easily drive around and from place to place. Now, we desperately want to degrease the number of those things as they are ruining the air we and our children are supposed to be able to breath. And it is not only the environment that we are destroying but ourselves as well. We have built an image of thriving cities to the extent that any other type of lifestyle is seen as backward and undeveloped. Yet, when climbing over a sleepy homeless in an attempt to get to my flat I, for a short moment, lost the sense and sensibility of it all.
The more I open my eyes and look at the reality behind the blurry visions and dreams I am forced to think that our efforts are nothing but a waste of time. Why fight a lost battle when we could benefit the consumer society at its height. Indeed, why not aim for the big bank account, fill it, empty it and enjoy the things only money can buy? Our world is, after all, going to explode due to its own impossibility.
The problem is that how can I be sure that the battle is lost for sure, if I don’t try fighting?
posted by riikka @ 5:43 PM
2 Comments:
Envy you for being in Paris!
Greetings from Helsinki, I decided to comment 10 women with the same name as I, which I find in the internet.
I was in Paris a couple of years ago. I have a friend who lives there with her husband and 3 children.
Because, Sweetie, "mankind owes to the child the best it has to give", to quote the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Therefore no fight is ever lost or pointless, if it aims to help the children.
And because there's two things I've learned from my dad, who brought me up on engineering logic.
1) manuals are for fags, and
2) there's a solution for everything.
We just may not know the solution yet, and we may not be able to fix the world by Tuesday, but that shouldn't keep us from trying. Because I belive, that if I, or you, or anyone, try hard enough, work as hard as you can, fight the fights you can, and give it everything you've got, you can fix it. At least a little. And that's why it's all worth it.
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