Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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Nuances of a Human Jill Dione and Constance DcVere “What’s past is prologue.” If we extend Shakespeare’s thought with relation to ourselves, we conclude that the past is prologue to present and future knowledge. Our past is composed of experiences which give and will give us a new perspective and better understanding of people. When we were less mature, we were aware only of the presence of people, not of the needs of people. Our feelings (oward others were governed more by instinct than by intellect: we loved someone because of his good qualities, because of the happiness these good qualities gave us. We never loved someone despite his faults, despite the unhappiness these faults might have given us. Therefore, our love was a selfish love because it felt a need to he fulfilled; it did not know or even wish to know that it could fulfill a need in others. But as we grew we became less dependent upon others. Because we were able to do things for our¬ selves, we were then able to do things for other people. Still, we saw that natural limitations prevented us from doing all things. Yet we also saw that these shortcomings were no obstacle to love, that other people loved us in spite of them. Thus, we discovered the truth of St. Paul’s statement: “love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behav e indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. It does not re¬ joice over unrighteousness, hut rejoices with the truth. It hears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” In short, we learned that when our love fulfilled the need in others, it fulfilled the need in ourselves. a human spectrum, the motivations behind human behavior. Previously, our vision had been obscured by our selfish love that blinded us to the entire range of colors. Our scope was restricted to clearly-defined superficialities since we did not remove ourselves from ourselves. We may even have hurt someone be¬ cause our imperfect understanding caused us to overlook the subtleties of his character. But it is from the pain we caused and the pain we felt that we gained understanding and a compassionate, cautious awareness: a positive awareness that does not make us cautious of others for ourselves, but of ourselves for others, an awareness that perfects our love because it protects it. Through our experiences we have come to realize that we are happy not when we are self-centered but when we are enjoying the companionship of others whom we love with our new-found love. We felt this love only when we finally forgot ourselves so completely that we identified our egos with the char¬ acters and experiences of other persons, only when we consummated our love with our pain at their pain. Th is selflessness reveals to us that loving is the “draining of oneself to be twice fulfilled.” 8 spectrum CNI Page

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HERALD Business Board M. Pescetello and M. Grabowicz devote after school hours 10 tallying up the sales. Duujiii; “Find it fast—in the Yellow Pages!” Mr. O’Brien, Advisor; C. Balboni, R. Gill. The day of a Busi¬ ness Board member often does not end until the sun is set¬ ting: D. Chasse, R. Harrison, 0 . Ghezzi. CO Page