nickhindes - Coming Up for Air, Part 3

Coming Up for Air, Part 3

"Is it gone forever? I'm not certain. But I can tell you it was a good world to live in. I belong to it. So do you." ...

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"Is it gone forever? I'm not certain. But I can tell you it was a good world to live in. I belong to it. So do you."

-George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

Only a two or three visits to the IDP Camp left and I can tell that a very big part of my time here will be sorely missed. The faces of the people, so battered by situation and circumstances will stay with me for the rest of my life, as though they were engraved on my mind. Such squaller and poverty, I would scarcely begin to tell you the overwhelming sense of hopelessness that pervades my thoughts.

Yet despite the images, many of these individuals stand out in my mind as they have gone against the cultural norm, and decided to take a different path through life. They have chosen a higher path, a path teeming with life, when others around them decided to wallow in their own frustrations and disappointments. They truly are those who understand the power and integrity of grace and compassion. These are the nameless and faceless who will be on my heart and mind.