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A Person Is Many Wonderful, Strange ThingsMarsha SinetarA person is many wonderful, strange things. . . Happening all at the same time. Each person is created a little differently, and not exactly like any other. Persons have wonderful things. . . visions, ideas, answers And Questions-Which-Cannot-Be-Answered, (and some which can) in their heads, all the time. Persons need other persons, and are all tied up with each other in many ways. Like families and friends, and in simple ways, like just wanting to say, "Hello" to the people on their street, or in the house next door. . . Because it feels good. Persons are mostly good, fair, kind, and helpful to each other. Especially in families and with people they know, like, and understand. They need love more than anything else, (except maybe air, water, and stuff like that) in order for things to feel good in their hearts. Sometimes a person feels like everything is HEAVY. Like after a day when everything goes wrong, and happy is hard to remember. The world seems lonely to persons at times like that. . . A Being-Left-Out, I'm-All-Alone Day, that lasts a long time. . . Even after bed, because there is no one who understands. And anyway, Persons don't always have words to express what is in their hearts. Persons have things going on all the time in their minds. Like wondering if they are doing The Right Thing, all the time. And some persons have really Neat Things in their heads, and they will even sometimes share their ideas with others. They share in lots of ways: talking ways, writing, dancing, teaching. . . and working ways. Some persons try to do a lot of things. And sometimes persons want to try Hard Things. . . that no one else has ever done before. They are not sure they can do it either. . . But they try anyway! Most persons think a long, long, time before they try something New. Because New is sort of scary, and it's much safer to do stuff that's been done before. Sometimes Persons who are trying hard to do something. . . Make it! And. . . Sometimes they don't. Mostly. . . persons keep on trying anyway. Lucky persons love their work. They play, delight, struggle. . . and rejoice in their work. But even O.K., happy persons can feel lonely, lost. . . and Not-O.K. for a little while. A no-one-to-hang-onto kind of feeling. A "Why can't I have what I want?" kind of feeling. . . A "How did I get into this mess?" kind of feeling, That seems like it will never go away. But, by some mysterious grace, it does! And, in fact, part of being persons is feeling all the joy, gladness, and love, that comes out of our hearts, Because these feelings let us know there will always be more wonderful things to be, And that the world is a pretty nice place in which to be a person! |
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