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what i have lived for
three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. these passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.
i have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that i would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. i have sought it, next, because it relieves lineliness—that terrible lineliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. i have sought it, finally, because in the union of love i have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. this is what i sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this i s what —at last—i have found.
with equal passion i have sought knowledge. i have wished to understand the hearts of men. i have wished to know why the starts shine. and i have tried to apprehend the pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. a little of this, but not much, i have achieved.
love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. but always it brought me back to earth. echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. i long to alleviate the evil, but i cannot, and i too suffer.
this has been my life. i have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
where do we go from here
i must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. there will be still rocky places of frustraction and meandering points of bewilderment. there will be enevitable setbacks here and there. there will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fagigue of despair. our dreams will sometimes be shattered and ethereal hopes blasted. Difficult and fainful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.
let this affirmation be our ringing cry. it will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. it will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. when our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.
–martin luther king jr.
where do we go from here? i don’t kown! it should not be a question… i even havn’t made it clear where i am now! wake up, lazy boy!
January 2nd,2009 english |
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