TreesofNorthAmerica

I hate to tell you this, but you cannot will yourself out of a terminal disease. Even if she was cured, at some point she would cease lving. Unless you mean to say that we are responsible for things we cannot control. That of course doesn't make sense. Am I responsible for the motion of the planets? Or the kidnapping of a child by a militia in Africa? Would I be allowing myself to die if a sudden, unexpected hailstorm left a golfball of ice in my temple? No.

Some friends and I are going to eat only a bowl of rice a day next week to try to better understand what it's like to be a poor child in Cambodia or China. But if we're doing this for a reason, will that dampen what we're doing? It's not like little sweatshop laborers choose their living conditions. Will we become knights of faith and transcend the mortal coil?