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Tragic Comedy
July 25th, 2010
By Rachael:
"Tragic comedy" is a perfect way to make sense of this. How many of you believe that your make-up must be just so, or your day will be ruined? How many of you must have polished, fancy cars to get it right? No, that's not comedy at all - that is tragedy. The tragedy of not seeing is far worse than empty moments. Can you not see that the comedy is actually in seeing? Actually partaking in the wonder of all human fallibility. Laughter saves us. You have tragedy in your bags full of purchases and goods. I have life, wonder, and love because I see.
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By Michael:
"Tragic comedy" - sounds like a nonsense word to you I bet. But in the lives of so many, it is the phrase they might choose that most adequately conveys their reality. One tragedy after another... but somehow they find it within themselves to get up, dust themselves off, and laugh at the hilarity and the impossibility of their situation. Somehow they find within themselves the ability to become more than mere victims of circumstance, to be fully human.
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