Bad people vs. good people

After out discussion of the poems we read in class, I couldn't stop thinking about the images in “He andado muchos caminos” of the good people and the bad people. While I know in this time, the writers were more focused on images and did not want the focus to be on political/ or real life connotations, I cannot help applying this to life today. As much as we sit there and think badly about the “bad people” who just ignore the people who are sad and suffering, who judge others and think they know better, the parallels to American society are somewhat uncanny. Millions of people are suffering everyday in the Sudan, Gaza, and all over the world, yet we as Americans turn a blind eye. We think that because we are fortunate enough to live in a society where violence and suffering on this scale don’t exist that we know better for developing this “perfect” democracy. In reading this, I imagine most people, like I did, sort of sided with the “good people,” automatically relating them with ourselves. However it almost made me sad thinking of how different from this description I am. We get so caught up in work and school and things that seem so important that we don’t always take time to play and dance. Not only do we know what it is to hurry, most of the time it defines out lives. While I know this might be a little heavy for a 150 word blog entry, this poem had the greatest effect on me and has given me a lot to think about.