TURN A FACE PINK
 
 

We know the world has good and bad...happy and sad...ups and downs. It's as natural as day and night. We can't change that. Or can we? In the poem "The Leaden-Eyed" Vachel Lindsay says: "It's the world's one crime its babies grow dull, Its poor are oxlike, limp and leaden-eyed. Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly; Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap; Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve; Not that they die, but that they die like sheep." We each need to bring a smile to someone else. If we each try to make someone else happier, then maybe we can make a difference. When I asked a friend at Opportunity Village what they would do if they saw a person with a problem, they said: "I think that I would talk to people if they have a problem and I would make people feel better and to make them feel happy inside and to make their face turn pink." Maybe we can't take away the sad and bad in the world, but we can sure try and outnumber them with the happy and the good. Turn a face pink.

 

Jim Holcombe
Marion, IA