1 Doing humanitarian work overseas, I had come to realize that it’s not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. In my senior year of college I applied for a Rhodes scholarship, awarded annually to men and women who are meant to “fight the world’s fight.” Scholars are sent to graduate school at Oxford University in England, and it was at Oxford that I really began to appreciate all of life’s beauty: joy, delight, rest, love, tranquillity, peace. These are things worth fighting for, for others and for ourselves.
