The Incredible Magic of Being by Kathryn Erskine

Author:Kathryn Erskine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

THE CONSTELLATION HUMANITY

There isn’t really a humanity constellation, but I like to think it’s out there somewhere. That way we’re all together, even when someone dies. They’re still part of our universe. They’re real. We still remember them and think about them. Memories and thoughts are real. Just because they don’t have physical shape doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Things we can’t see and touch are still real, like the air we breathe.

When people die they’re not really gone. Not completely, anyway. You can still talk to them. Plus, everything they did changed the course of human events, or at least the course of events in your house. That’s true even for people you didn’t actually know. Like Abraham Lincoln who wouldn’t let our country divide over stupid issues like keeping people enslaved which was a crazy idea to begin with, or Jane Addams who helped immigrants and women and even got the Nobel Peace Prize, or Percy Lavon Julian. They’re called inspirations because if they could do something cool, even if it was really hard and took a lot of work and they failed a ton of times but they went back and tried some more until they got it, then we can all do that.

And if we all did that then this world would be a MUCH better place because it wouldn’t be just the famous people persevering and contributing, it’d be everyone. That would be a REALLY magical universe.

I wonder if the whole world rooting for me would be enough to get me to learn to swim, without drowning.

Maybe it would.

But I still don’t want to risk it.

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