While waiting for my class to start, I start rummaging through old papers and a folded up, highlighted interview from Eduardo Galeano came tumbling out of my notebook. I realized that I read this interview long before I came to Chile but now, more than any other period in my life, I have been forced to listen and, while hearing new voices around me, I have experienced worlds that I could not have imagined existed.
So here's to listening, experiencing, and growing!
And above all, most importantly if you don't want to be mute, you should
begin by not being deaf. You have to know how to listen if you want to
speak. Listen in order to speak. Then open your eyes if they're closed,
uncover your ears if they're blocked. Listen, look, feel the voices of the world...The happy, the
merry, the joyous (that's the word I was looking for, joyous) proof that the
world neither begins nor ends at the edge of your own skin. That every one
is more than just one, and there are colors and voices waiting for you...The world is full of possible celebrations. There's so much to celebrate. And to receive the world is
to accept the horrors but also the wonders. It's a constant challenge to leave
your shell, your prison. Just remember that in order for that to work
you've got to also know how to see what's happening outside. Because other
voices will challenge what you think, they'll help make you alive. It's a kind
of dialogue, a fecund, living contradiction that allows for growth.
Eduardo Galeano
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