{"id":220881,"date":"2020-04-03T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=220881"},"modified":"2020-04-05T04:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:53:49","slug":"living-through-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/03\/living-through-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Living *THROUGH* History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cindy just wrote an essay titled: My Experience Living through History: War, Human Agency, and Non-Future<\/a>. It gave me a deep opportunity to reflect myself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean to live through history, and to become PART of history?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Cindy’s family in the relocation camp in the Philippines. Cindy is the child in her mother’s arms.
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Some excerpts I liked from Cindy’s essay<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, it was not until COVID-19 that I now know what it means to live through<\/strong><\/em> history. While this moment is not the same as war, I have become familiar with its symptoms and side effects. The loss of human agency in everyday action. The inability to fathom a future. The surrender to fated defeat and existential misery.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I want to know is what it means to move past<\/strong><\/em> history. How did my parents do it? How did they survive, support four kids with nothing, and create a life and new opportunities for their kids? I am searching for that boundless power, that hope to hold onto, that rational deployment of my skills and any tools I have access to. What do I do? I continue to minimize all inessential expenses and direct that money to support small businesses and other vulnerable populations. I continue to check in with my loved ones and to tell them how much I love and miss them. I continue to take care of my health. I continue to be grateful for my health and community. I continue to be strong and vulnerable with my students and colleagues. I continue to write and make sense of this world. I continue<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Living through history and being PART of history.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We will definitely think about society PRE-COVID and life POST-COVID. I know for myself, living THROUGH and currently with the COVID-crisis, I feel a deeper duty and sense of responsibility towards humanity. I feel it is my duty to motivate, inspire, and empower others– sharing thoughts on Stoicism<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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