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We actually set out to save the world. That is what was insane . . . me, for thinking I could enter a war and personally restore order.

So that’s the easy answer: forswear idealism, resign myself to a sad maturity; put away the things of youth; be thankful I survived and move on.

But that’s horseshit too, a craven capitulation. I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naïve and romantic and idealist – the part of yourself you treasure most – to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact? If everyone resigns themselves to cynicism, isn’t that exactly how vulnerable millions end up dead?

- Ken Cain, Emergency Sex
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James Janzen is a writer, traveler, and undergraduate student of international conflict and peace studies at the University of Winnipeg in Canada. In the past five years he has traveled through parts of Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia, as well as spent extensive time in remote areas of northern Canada. His written work has been featured in The Uniter Weekly Urban Journal.
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