Day Forty-six: Where is the Happy in the Heartbreak?

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Day Forty-six: Where is the Happy in the Heartbreak?

12/17/2014

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I'm having a really tough time finding my "happy" today after yesterday's news story of the school in Pakistan that was attacked, leaving over 150 dead, most of whom were children. I have never been to Pakistan and have no ties to that country what-so-ever. I know none of the lives that were lost, personally, but I have worked nearly a decade in various schools and understand the climate, the bonds forged. This is my only related connection of any kind to what happened, and yet I am heartbroken, as well as outraged. One of the wounded students told a reporter that he watched his teacher, who was trying to protect him and his classmates, gunned down and then burned. This is not the first, last, or most horrible thing happening in the world right NOW, and that stark fact is enough to crush my "happy" under a boot of sorrow. I do not understand a world where these kinds of things happen on a regular basis, or why the human race continues to allow them. I am furious at the injustices to be found in every corner of our blue planet, and the fact that we have yet, as a people, put a stop to them!

The young lady in the video below (...I'm sure most of you recognize) was shot and nearly killed in an attempt to silence her voice for speaking out about the "wrongness" of these kinds of things. I am happy I live in a nation where I can speak freely on these issues without fearing for my life in order to do so. I don't know what I will do to be an active part of making this world a safer, better place, but I by God know I will find a way in the coming year to do more. I will find as may ways as possible to make a difference, to help make the world a safer place for all of us.

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I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter.

Since then, I have learned to reach well beyond what I ever dared to think was possible. I've learned not to allow fear to stop me from whatever future I want to create!

What keeps me grounded? My Tribe! What provides the wind beneath my wings? A well of reserves filled with unstoppable passion!

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