Photo by Sakhr Abdullah
by Chloe Sun
This week, I came across a short poem that prompts me to reflect on the idealists and the realists. The poem goes like this:
Ideals are like stars
We never reach them,
But like mariners of the sea,
We chart our course by them.[1]
This poem distinguishes ideals from reality. Ideals and reality are not set in opposition to one another. Rather, they are in an interconnected relationship: Ideals give hope to reality. Ideals chart the course of our lives. Whether we can ever reach the ideals is not the question. The question is: as we journey through life, what are we guided by? Are we guided by a higher principle or are we like a ship wandering in the vast ocean aimlessly? (more…)
