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When You Put It That Way

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I'm talking to my sister on the phone---"You must be so lonely," she says.

4 comments:

Ms. Sushi said...: I say, you must be totally self-fulfilled!; March 17, 2009 at 2:12 PM
wahida said...: I'm not sure I believe in "total self-fulfillment?" I think there's a difference between co-dependence and the natural longing for human contact.; March 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM
wahida said...: Oh, ha, now I see that I misread your comment. It wasn't a direction, just a reinterpretation. I'm dense these days. So, thanks!; March 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Ms. Sushi said...: Oh, sorry, that does sound like a demand now that I read it over. You definitely do not have to be totally self-fulfilled. I doubt anyone could be. Miss you. I'll call you later tonight.; March 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM

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Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human. [We] say, "Yu u nobuntu"; "Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu." Then you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours." We belong in a bundle of life. We say, "A person is a person through other persons."

[...] A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are.

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