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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 689928" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Pigless. It sounds like a Tennessee Williams play or William Faulkner or even Eudora Welty, is that her name? </p><p></p><p>OK. You sound very clear and the kids very clear, too. You know why you are going. Not because you have to but because that is who you are and more than this, who you choose to be. And the kids are living from that, too.</p><p></p><p>I decided in exactly this same way as my mother was dying. But it was not one day. It went on years. One day is just one day. But it is an important day--in that it will be remembered for life--and it is part of defining a life. Who I am. To me, these decisions are the most important thing in defining who we are. In that I am an existentialist. </p><p></p><p>I am thinking here of a story I read about Sartre, the French Existentialist philosopher. A student came to him after a lecture, with a moral question: it was in the early 1940's in the midst of the war. </p><p></p><p><em>My mother, he said is ill. Nobody is left to care for her except me. I want to join the Free French Army and go fight against the Nazis. I want to be part of that, to know that I did my part to defeat them, as many of them as I can.</em> </p><p></p><p><em>But my mother only has me. If I go and leave her she will surely die. </em></p><p></p><p><em>The young man had already been to priests and to friends and any authority he could find, to help him understand what would be the best choice.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Professor Sartre, what is the correct choice? What is the moral choice? </em> </p><p></p><p>Sartre, answered something like, <em>just choose.</em> <em>One or the other. </em></p><p></p><p>I believe he meant this: There is no right thing except that which we determine ourselves. And that which we decide, as individuals, is everything. It defines us. Now, this I do not agree with. Absolutely not. <em>By not going to the funeral you simply would be not going to the funeral. </em>You are not responsible for what others think or do not think.</p><p>Now this, I agree with. This is a choice. </p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I choose to support him. Because that is who I am and who I want to be.</em></p><p>And this too. This is strong. </p><p></p><p><em>I choose to see life as this. This is how I choose to live my life. Showing up for the good in others, in the face, of sorrow, regret and misery. I stand up for good.</em></p><p></p><p>Do you see the power in this?</p><p></p><p>Pigless. On a more mundane note. I will google <em>tobacco country towns.</em> I want to go to place or one like it. For somebody who loved to read moody Southern novels it would be paradise to step into the past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 689928, member: 18958"] Pigless. It sounds like a Tennessee Williams play or William Faulkner or even Eudora Welty, is that her name? OK. You sound very clear and the kids very clear, too. You know why you are going. Not because you have to but because that is who you are and more than this, who you choose to be. And the kids are living from that, too. I decided in exactly this same way as my mother was dying. But it was not one day. It went on years. One day is just one day. But it is an important day--in that it will be remembered for life--and it is part of defining a life. Who I am. To me, these decisions are the most important thing in defining who we are. In that I am an existentialist. I am thinking here of a story I read about Sartre, the French Existentialist philosopher. A student came to him after a lecture, with a moral question: it was in the early 1940's in the midst of the war. [I]My mother, he said is ill. Nobody is left to care for her except me. I want to join the Free French Army and go fight against the Nazis. I want to be part of that, to know that I did my part to defeat them, as many of them as I can.[/I] [I]But my mother only has me. If I go and leave her she will surely die. [/I] [I]The young man had already been to priests and to friends and any authority he could find, to help him understand what would be the best choice.[/I] [I] Professor Sartre, what is the correct choice? What is the moral choice? [/I] Sartre, answered something like, [I]just choose.[/I] [I]One or the other. [/I] I believe he meant this: There is no right thing except that which we determine ourselves. And that which we decide, as individuals, is everything. It defines us. Now, this I do not agree with. Absolutely not. [I]By not going to the funeral you simply would be not going to the funeral. [/I]You are not responsible for what others think or do not think. Now this, I agree with. This is a choice. [I] I choose to support him. Because that is who I am and who I want to be.[/I] And this too. This is strong. [I]I choose to see life as this. This is how I choose to live my life. Showing up for the good in others, in the face, of sorrow, regret and misery. I stand up for good.[/I] Do you see the power in this? Pigless. On a more mundane note. I will google [I]tobacco country towns.[/I] I want to go to place or one like it. For somebody who loved to read moody Southern novels it would be paradise to step into the past. [/QUOTE]
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