Molly Higgins
Leader in Training
What's good LIT's?
The human life is characterized by need. Some, like the needs for food, water, and oxygen, tie in directly with the tangible body and physical mechanisms of living. Other needs are reserved for those with unquiet minds and an urge to do more then simply exist. The needs for acceptance, companionship, faith, evolution...those are the ones that fill the darkened voids that plague the lives of many. Born into varied situations and faced with different adversities, the goal of filling that void, of filling words with meaning an bandaging bleeding hearts, is one that a lot of people spend their lives trying to obtain. Fortunately, a summer at CSL succeeds with this goal. Even after only the first 24 hours of being assimilated into the camp culture, I feel no space within me. No gap, no void, no emptiness that might threaten to shade these colorful days with black. The most prominent need in the life of an LIT is that for evolution, for maturation and the readiness to be able to happily and consistently put others before themselves. With an animal "responsibility" project and the recent assignment of bunks who we will work with throughout the summer, I already feel that evolution beginning to take place within me, and I know that my fellow LIT's do as well. In a tumultuous life, everyone, somehow, becomes broken. It is only at camp, where our needs are filled and our days seem like dreams that do not evaporate when the eyes of the dreamer open wide to seek the first rays of the sun, that we all, once again, become whole.
