Courage Is Contagious
December 13th, 2018
Guest writer for Wake Up World
Civil courage is the capacity to do what serves the common good, even if one must stand alone.
No matter how many times we hear of one person’s act of conscience igniting sparks that light up the sky, too many of us hold tight to the notion that our own acts don’t mean much. Aren’t we the proverbial drops in the bucket, nice but never spectacular? Or, as it dawned on my daughter Anna and me while writing Hope’s Edge for many of us it’s even worse. We feel more like drops in the Sahara, evaporating before we even hit the sand.
One reason for blindness to our own power could be that we can’t see the bucket that our “action drops” are filling up — that is, the big, system-changes our individual choices help to inch forward. I do know that every time in my life that I have been able to catch even a glimpse of such a bucket, my life has changed.
Recently it happened as I marched more than a hundred miles with Democracy Spring in 2016 to sit on the Capitol steps, demanding money out of politics. Knowing that I was part of the rising Democracy Movement, I could feel my “drops” splashing into a powerful bucket.
But a metaphor of “filling up” from the top down still misses a lot, for in our world where “there are no parts, only participants” (the lovely phrase of my departed friend, physicist Hans Peter Duerr) our energies radiate horizontally.
It happens because in our interconnected world, almost always someone is noticing. Even if it’s one person.
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