Blown away by the wonders of humanity
So, I entered the HP Magic Giveaway here: http://livingintheory.blogspot.com/2008/12/heres-deal.html
And, the premise of this particular bloggers contest was that people should say how they are impacting the lives of others -and- what they would do to pay forward the awesome prizes if they win.
She encouraged people entering to also go read the other entries. At first I thought it was some way of judging the contestants - maybe see how many comments they left with others, to see if they were truly ‘giving’ or were, instead, selfish. Maybe it is. Or, maybe it’s some other measure that she’s using to decide the winner.
Whatever it is, though and whether I win or not, it was truly a gift from her to me. A bonus prize, free for the taking.
Because, reading through the almost 150 entries, made me feel good about my fellow man. It made me happy to be here, with people who care. And, it made me feel, rightly or wrongly, that there are more people out there caring & doing than I know of in my day to day life. That people are giving in so many ways, people you know of, but also people you wouldn’t expect. The desire to share, to touch other lives, to do good, seems so universal and wonderful. It gives me hope.
Thank you for the rainshower, sugar!
OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET
We asked for rain. It didn’t flash and roar.
It didn’t lose its temper at our demand
And blow a gale. It didn’t misunderstand
And give us more than our spokesman bargained for;
And just because we owned to a wish for rain,
Send us a flood and bid us be damned and drown.
It gently threw us a glittering shower down.
And when we had taken that into the roots of grain,
It threw us another and then another still,
Till the spongy soil again was natal wet.
We may doubt the just proportion of good to ill.
There is much in nature against us. But we forget;
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man,
Say a fraction of one percent at the very least,
Or our number living wouldn’t be steadily more,
Our hold on the planet wouldn’t have so increased.
- Robert Frost
