A Tribute to Ms. Angelina Jolie
Lee Tae-Sang
Dear Ms. Angelina Jolie,
As a fellow human, or rather cosmic being, I couldn’t agree with you more. In TIME Commemorative Double Issue (Feb. 1/ Feb. 8, 2021) you wrote:
“FOR YEARS WE WERE WARNED THAT A GLOBAL pandemic was inevitable, yet our response has shown a gigantic failure of imagination, preparation and global cooperation. The parallels with the climate emergency are obvious.”
As you quoted climate activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, “There is no vaccine against climate change.”
It should go without saying that we are part of the whole of nature, microcosmos of macrocosmos; hence we will prosper and perish together. We have to realize that when I hurt or help you, I’m hurting or helping myself; and that when I destroy or divine Nature, I’m destroying or divining myself.
Please kindly permit me, as a kindred spirit and a fan of yours, to present this short article included in my book ‘Cosmian Rhapsody’ (published last fall) as a tribute to you for all you’ve done and for all you’ll do for us all:
May The Jolie Good Era of the Cosmian Age Be Born!
The Holywood actor and activist Angelina Jolie, the U.N. special envoy, recently told BBC that she was considering a move into politics, saying she would go where she was needed. She is an active campaigner on a range of issues, including refugees, sexual violence and conservation.
In addition to her three biological children, three more children were adopted from orphanages in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam, respectively.
In 2013, the Hollywood film industry recognized Angelina Jolie with a humanitarian award for her work with refugees and advocating for human rights through her film career. Upon receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Jolie remembered her late mother who encouraged her to live a life of use to others, although she said it took time for her to realize what that meant.
This is what she said:
“I came into this business young and worried about my own pain. And it was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I began to understand my responsibility to others. When I met survivors of war and famine and rape, I learned what life is like for most people in the world. And how fortunate I was to have food to eat, a roof over my head, a safe place to live, and the joy of having my family safe and healthy. I realized how sheltered I had been, and I was determined never to be that way again.
We are all, every one in this room, so fortunate. I have never understood why some people are lucky enough to be born with the chance I had, to have this path in life, and why across the world there’s a woman just like me, with the same abilities and the desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches, only she sits in a refugee camp, and she has to keep them safe, and if they’ll ever be allowed to return home. I don’t know why this is my life and that’s hers.
I don’t understand that, but I will do the best I can with this life to be of use.”
The title of the cover story of TIME, February 26, 2018 was:
HOW TO LIVE LONGER, BETTER: You’re still going to die, though.
Based on my own experience of having lived so far for 84 years, the answer I arrived at is this:
You live as much as you love, for if you don’t love, life is meaningless.
I’d like to share this anonymous quote presumed from Native American Indians, who are ethnically related to Koreans:
“The rivers don’t drink their own water;
the trees don’t eat their own fruits.
The sun doesn’t shine for itself;
the flowers don’t give their fragrance to themselves.
To live for others is nature’s way…
Life is good when you are happy;
but life is much better when others are happy
because of you! Who doesn’t live to serve,
doesn’t deserve to live. Our nature is service.”
Let’s recite this little poem by Rumi:
“Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not natter.
If you do come, these do not matter.”
When we make you the world leader, I pray, you will give birth to The Jolie Good Era of The Cosmian Age!
Lee Tae-Sang
Founder of Cosmian News (www.cosmiannews.com)
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