Quotation: “All of us as vital as the one light we move through” (Blanco).
Comment: I really liked this quote as I was going through the poem and I felt it connected with my own personal beliefs as well. I truly do believe that every single individual in a society is important to its function. It speaks through Blanco’s use of the world “vital”. I think of what we as humans vitally need to live, and how we each are a vital human being to society. The other part of this quotation I really liked was the one light that Blanco refers to multiple times in the beginning of the poem. He also does it in other places, but central to the idea of ONE. To me, this means how we are all the same. I believe this is what Blanco is trying to get across in the poem. Despite how different we may believe we are from one another, we all have habits and ways of life that are the same. We do the same morning routines and we travel through the same places. Referring to this line, we live under the same sunlight every day.
Question: If we can realize so many similarities in one life, then why can some individuals accept every life for its own? How can we separate and hate others when the building blocks of being human are so similar? Are we unconscious of this, or chose to be unconscious of this in order to justify hate?
