in defense of unicorns
- I won't be in Creative Writing again on Thursday because I have to take the AP English exam. [Also the excuse for a few others not being there.] So I won't be able to 'defend my point' in person... but here ya go anyway. -
After having doubted and been sad about how things are in the world and how we don't know things and about the big universe out there --- and after having thought my contant optimism maybe wasn't the thing that works --- I've realized something important. The world needs unicorns.
The world needs some who will spread color and joy, some eternal optimists who will persist in believing in fairies. And who will be viewed as foolish and shallow by some others but who really do know better. It isn't just airheadedness. "Be not simply good -- be good for something" is more like it.
Of course it can't be defended in a thesis, or explained even, but most important things are like that anyway.
After having doubted and been sad about how things are in the world and how we don't know things and about the big universe out there --- and after having thought my contant optimism maybe wasn't the thing that works --- I've realized something important. The world needs unicorns.
The world needs some who will spread color and joy, some eternal optimists who will persist in believing in fairies. And who will be viewed as foolish and shallow by some others but who really do know better. It isn't just airheadedness. "Be not simply good -- be good for something" is more like it.
Of course it can't be defended in a thesis, or explained even, but most important things are like that anyway.
posted by Laura at 6:29 PM
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