... and Sweet

This will be short, I promise.  There are a few thoughts I wanted to share from conversations I had today with various people.

A teacher once told me that an idea can sometimes ring so true inside that one immediately adopts it as a Truth rather than filtering it through a filter of judgment.   There is an inherent danger in falling for this trap.  This advice was offered when a discussion led to me mentioning how everyone on this planet should watch An Inconvenient Truth.  Her response was not what I expected but it was very much a valid point: to firmly believe in something, one needs to be able to argue as convincingly for either "side".  In other words, one should take information from Al Gore with as much skepticism as if he or she were watching CNN or Fox News.

This, of course, is the opinion of a certain individual and although I don't wholeheartedly agree, she definitely makes a valid point.  It has served mainly as a personal reminder when taking in new information.

Today was a day of stimulating (and long overdue) conversations with friends.  I'm still surrounded by this overwhelming sense of naïvety when I think that I will be in Mali in a week from now.  It's both exciting and a little scary but I feel clarity in the reasons why I'm going and doing this.  Whether I will adhere to this plan for the duration of the internship remains to be seen.

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