Editorial December 5, 1988 Issue

Serious living

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

It's strange, isn't it, that when we're living along in a conventional way, we're apt to think and talk a lot about minor slights and indignities, shortcomings of family members, wanting more time, needing more money.

The ordinary human being seems to spend extraordinary amounts of time in this litany of complaint.

But then another sense of things can come quite suddenly. Possibly it comes as you're reading an account of someone's years of struggle for simple human rights—how he or she has surmounted political imprisonment and even torture. Or perhaps you know of someone closer to home—a high-school girl who persisted in spite of a family life that was a horror of drugs and abandonment. She tells about it at her graduation. She turns it into inspiration for all.

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