Saving the World
“Everywhere she looks, she feels implicated by the dozens upon dozens of little perks and privileges her life is built upon.
It’s ridiculous where this guilt first seizes her, in the airport bathroom in Vermont. She enters the bright, cleanser-smelling room with its bank of mirrors, its stalls with backup rolls that drop into place to offer more paper when the bottom one is used up, the extra hand towels held together by a brown band and stacked atop the too-full dispenser. She tries to imag...ine them, the kidnappers, the way they would see this room; there is so much here, and more where that came from, and this is a public place. Not a rich man’s home, not a dictator’s palace, not a swanky suite for state functions but a small airport in a rural state with its own pockets of poverty.
She hates looking at her life this way, through grievance. How can this pettiness be good for anyone? Counting the petals wasted on a rose as if the distribution were suddenly her fault.MoreLess
It’s ridiculous where this guilt first seizes her, in the airport bathroom in Vermont. She enters the bright, cleanser-smelling room with its bank of mirrors, its stalls with backup rolls that drop into place to offer more paper when the bottom one is used up, the extra hand towels held together by a brown band and stacked atop the too-full dispenser. She tries to imag...ine them, the kidnappers, the way they would see this room; there is so much here, and more where that came from, and this is a public place. Not a rich man’s home, not a dictator’s palace, not a swanky suite for state functions but a small airport in a rural state with its own pockets of poverty.
She hates looking at her life this way, through grievance. How can this pettiness be good for anyone? Counting the petals wasted on a rose as if the distribution were suddenly her fault.MoreLess
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