Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question...
T.S. Eliot
In the past two and a half
months in Haiti, I feel that I have been overwhelmed with more questions than
answers:
Why are Haitian drivers so
aggressive? It causes ridiculous traffic jams… to say to least!
Why can’t Haitians understand
the concept of “saving for a rainy day?” It certainly rains enough here!
Why does Spam taste so
disgusting and yet we keep eating it?
Why do Haitians treat dogs
and animals so cruelly? I have seen dogs kicked, pinched, burned, and
purposefully hit with cars.
Why are people living in patched tents while others have multiple empty vacation homes?
How can starvation exist in
the same world as an obesity epidemic?
Many of my deeper questions
can’t yet be framed into words. It is taking me time to process what our family
is experiencing. Everything “normal” to us has been erased, and the void has
been filled with things I don’t yet understand. The culture is very different
here, and it is tainted with the darkness of voodoo and the desperation of dire
poverty. Despite all of this, when the children of Haiti smile, the world is a
better place.
The only answers I have
found so far are faith, hope, and love.
The greatest of these is love.
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