Letters to the Editor
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Hearing the call
Dreams of grandeur are fun when you're a teenager, but very few people live grand lives and start revolutions. There is nobility in raising good humans for the next generation, and being a husband who makes his wife happy. You have a desire to express your highest nature, and you have translated that using big images from our culture and from literature --- but they are only symbols of what you really want.
If you are even sitting around thinking about whether you are one of that 0.00000000001% of people who will "change the world" in a headline-making fashion, then you are probably not one of them. There is absolutely not shame in that, and you already know what you're meant to do. You have a little bit of this world to fix and make better, and only you can do it, so throw yourself into it with abandon.