Any real change

 

 implies the breakup 

 

of the world as one has always known it, 

 

the loss of all that gave one an identity, 

 

the end of safety.

 

 And at such a moment, 

 

unable to see 

 

and not daring to imagine

 

 what the future will now bring forth, 

 

one clings to what one knew, 

 

or dreamed that one possessed. 

 

Yet,

 

 it is only when a man is able,

 

 without bitterness or self-pity,

 

 to surrender a dream he has long cherished

 

 or a privilege he has long possessed 

 

that he is set free...

 

he has set himself free...

 

for higher dreams, 

 

for greater privileges.

 

-  James Baldwin -

 

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