tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post3938725188140772205..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Balancing OutrageNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-82328971722378689452007-10-18T18:17:00.000-05:002007-10-18T18:17:00.000-05:00I agree completely Tampopo, the cynical bubble is ...I agree completely Tampopo, the cynical bubble is NO anecdote to the outrage. I actually want to avoid the cynicism more than the outrage - its a hopeless place to be. <BR/><BR/>My struggle to find the anecdote was what took me to Mandela - wondering how he maintained his clarity, passion and hope during all those years in a situation that, at least externally, looked pretty powerless.<BR/><BR/>Part of what I see when I look at Mandela is that his values reached all the way through from the global to the particular. By that, I mean that he gave those around him (even his jailers) what it was he was fighting for in the whole country. Since there was a seamlessness to his commitment, he did what he could where he was and didn't seem to see a disconnect between that and the national struggle.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-38862769565821725332007-10-18T17:13:00.000-05:002007-10-18T17:13:00.000-05:00I know there are people who speak of taking the ou...I know there are people who speak of taking the outrage and directing it toward action - anger energy. For me that doesn't work very well in that the energy of anger is like a sugar boost, intense, but short lived, leaving me more depleted. Actions (particularly words said) in a reaction to my own state of anger are often the ones I end up regretting, especially when I experience "righteous anger!"<BR/><BR/>I, too, have been bouncing between outrage and withdrawal to a "cynical bubble" - a place of hopelessness and despair. But I don't find the cynical bubble is any kind of balance for the outrage if I think of "balance" as a kind of counter weight to the outrage. I am blind and deaf to all the beauty that surrounds me when I am in a state of anger or depression - can't really feel it. They have the same effect. P*ssed off and depressed aren't opposites ;)<BR/><BR/>How would you complete this analogy?<BR/><BR/>outraged:depressed = ? : ?tampopohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033350123571938768noreply@blogger.com