Maya Shanbhag Lang | What We Carry
Good Life Project
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Is There a Story That You've Always Come Back To?
A story that my mother told me when my daughter was born. A story of a woman in a river who is holding her baby, and she's crossing this river because she needs to get to the other side. She can either sacrifice her baby and make it to the other side alone, or she can sacrifice herself and have her child survive. And until you are in that position, panicked, feeling the water up to your chest, until you're in that woman's shoes, you have no idea what you would do. That's the lesson of the story.
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