“Who Are You?”
A Poem by Camilla Sanderson
They don’t interest me, the superficial details of your life..
I want to know
If you contemplate death—
Not in a morbid way,
But in a way that determines how you will live your life.
It doesn’t interest me what you think you’re supposed to do….
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Last night in Paris there were attacks on several public gathering places, a tragedy which follows other attacks on the city in recent months. I felt sorrow and anger as I read about yet another act of violence in our world. I felt sympathy for the caregivers and emergency workers who encountered the bodies of over 125 persons who had died, along with hundreds of others who were injured. I felt compassion for those who lost their loved ones so unexpectedly and may not have heard the news until hours after it happened. I even felt some compassion for the group who planned and initiated the shootings and bombings. What happens to a person, a group of people, to cause them to choose this way of being in the world?
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