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For me, there’s this interesting and feeling like we are battling in is the idea that there are so many
interaction between what I take in the sea … So, psychologically, I need people, from so many different
and what takes me in … I am to ask myself, what to do, in terms walks of life, that have been part of
simplifying things, but there is a of how to process this. ‘What am I this project, that are trying to make
process by which we build and we going to take in?’ Because I need to a difference despite the sense of
take in. But we can still also feel like change my psychological position being overwhelmed. And it’s a
we are being taken in; that we are on this. I feel like there is a degree matter of principle. Even if we can’t
being overcome … engulfed by to which I will continue to be taken change certain things, we can act
something. We come back to: ‘what in because these issues that we from a position of principle. And I
do I take in and what am I talked about are so big, but I also, find that really inspiring. And I find
overcome by, or what am I sinking on some level, need to change the that, that is who I want to be. So,
into.’ And, initially, in this position and say: ‘What am I going firstly, that’s the one thing I’d like to
pilgrimage, I felt a little bit ‘taken to take in; what am I going to digest from this process. And then,
in,’ too, or ‘overcome by.’ I felt very process from my position?’ … As through that, there’s an
overwhelmed … by all these things I healthy adults we learn to spit out interconnectivity – maybe its very
was exposed to … and initially that the bad, take in what we can, to much saying the same thing, but I
was very much about exposure to digest, and in a sense hold the good think we reflect accountability. And
the ideas of waste, pollution, and the bad. And, I think that there its firstly an accountability to
destruction, death. I felt a little bit is a lot of bad that we are guilty myself: who I want to be; where I
lost, like I was on the receiving end about, and I’m not trying in any way want to position myself. Then its an
of that water. And I think part of to deny that. But I think we also accountability to others, in terms of
what is overwhelming is feeling like need to situate ourselves in the me trying to make a difference to
we are stuck there; feeling like we good, in terms of what we do have. others and then, importantly, to the
are fighting upstream, fighting wars, And, for me, one of those things … surrounding environment.”
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