Discovering the pain and beauty of second-hand joy
To look at someone else’s joy and privilege and feel it for them, says Pieta Bouma, without trying to grasp onto that joy for yourself, is liberation and love.
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Ruby is a Māori woman with short brown hair wearing a tan-coloured dress and a pounamu around her neck. She sits in a chair in a blue and beige room. Photographer: Julie Zhu
To look at someone else’s joy and privilege and feel it for them, says Pieta Bouma, without trying to grasp onto that joy for yourself, is liberation and love.
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