| The individual has to learn to accept his human role. When an adult pettishly protests that he didn’t ask to be born, he overlooks the simple fact that nobody else did either. Those whose services he commands had as little to say about being born as he himself had. By his standard, therefore, they have as much right as he to ask that the world wait upon them – the only hitch being that the people upon whom the world would have to depend are also people who did not ask to be born. | |
| To mature, in brief, is progressively to accept the fact that the human experience is a shared experience; the human predicament, a shared predicament. A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. | |
| — Earl F. Wood, M.A. | |
| From his book: “Senior English Review Exercises“ | |
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| On This Day In: | |
| 2014 | In Answer |
| Days Are Passing | |
| 2013 | Opportunity |
| 2012 | Appropriate Qualities |
| 2011 | A Place To Hang My Hat |
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“A shared experience” yes, that’s true. You reminded me of one of the scenes in Benjamin Button when Daisy gets hit by a car. The story teller, Benjamin, mentions all the other people that had something to do with the accident; he connects many people from different worlds together and how everything they did contributed in the accident.
No one is an exception and the world doesn’t revolve around any of us. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Ahmed,
You are the third person in the last week to mention this movie to me. I guess that is Allah’s way of “suggesting” to me that I should watch it sooner rather than later. 🙂
Thanks for the visit and the comment…