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My heart breaks as I set him free.
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photographs hid the truth about a person, offering only an illusion instead.”
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Hope—for such a simple word its meaning is profound. The intellect in me dismisses its claim while the writer never understood the appeal of the intangible.
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“How do they decide who is second-class in America?” I shudder at the question.
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History shows us we need labels to help define our place. For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. For every person who stands superior, another must be inferior.
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History teaches us that day will never come. Our differences give us purpose—both good and bad. Some see it as an opportunity to strive for what they aren’t, while others take it to belittle those who frighten us. In the vein of my earlier appreciation for dancing, I would imagine a world where music defines us. The fall and rise of the tempo would dictate our moves, and our hearts and minds would sway to the beat. Each person would have a place on the stage, and every voice would be heard. The melodies would bridge our differences while celebrating our similarities. And at the end, we would
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With age comes wisdom and the knowledge that we can’t dance through our lives. But I hope I can find a way where my labels of daughter, reporter, wife, and now soon to be divorcée don’t define me. Instead, every new person will represent the chance to grow, and I will feel no shame in taking the first step. With humility may I reap my own power, and at the end of the journey, I hope I learn when to stand small so others can feel tall.
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“There is a practice among Indian women. Once a year, a woman starves herself for a full day and full night in the hope that, in return, the gods will grant a long and happy life to the man for whom she has fasted—usually her husband. After the rise of the moon, the woman waits for the man to feed her the first bite of food and offer the first sip of water.”
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