“A Single Lucid Moment,” by Robert W. Soderstrom describes what life is
like in Papau New Guinea and shows the deep love and care that
villagers from the small village can have towards others across the
globe. As Robert and his wife, Kerry volunteered as Peace Corps
volunteers in New Guinea, they were welcomed by the villagers that lived
there and although weren’t as nearly as fortunate as Americans, lived a
carefree life. One day, when they were telling stories, Robert passed
around a picture of his hometown, Chicago, with two homeless men on the
street. The villagers were shocked and all wanted to rally to help
these two men out of their misfortune. They were so interested in the
topic of homelessness that they went into action to see what they could
do, and even tried to contact the U.S. government. Even though in the
end they couldn’t help the two homeless men, they still continued to
work on projects to help the less fortunate people in the world, even
though they are some of the least fortunate people.
I think that the piece “A Single Lucid Moment” (by Robert Soderstrom)
effectively shows the loving care that the villagers from Papau New
Guinea show towards homeless Americans. It was amazing to me that the
villagers had such confidence that they could make things right for the
two homeless Americans that they saw in a picture when they hadn’t ever
heard of the concept “homelessness,” let alone knew of their
backgrounds. Many people outside of their country or village would
think that such a small group of people couldn’t make an impact on such
an important topic, but the villagers were extremely confident in their
thoughts and had no question about not being able to make an impact.
This is very inspiring to me because I have always heard that a single
person can make an impact, but not many people listen to that advice
very well. The people in the village didn’t think twice about trying to
make an impact even though many people probably doubted that they could
make any difference. Even though they didn’t realize this, the
villagers were probably just as less fortunate as the homeless people in
the photograph, but they still wanted to help. This is inspiring to me
because they never gave up, so another question I had was what kind of
other projects did the villagers work on, since they wanted to help in
other ways instead of giving up? I think that it is very interesting
that different cultures don’t know about some of the concepts that we
grow up with in America.
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