My place in this world

As I started thinking a little after this last post and actually some ideas from class game this idea about a song I could put on here.
The song is called "My Place in this world" By: Michael W. Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT5qZ8-2Boc&feature=related
The above link goes to the music video on youtube that would play it for you with lyrics. The lyrics are

The wind is moving, but I am standing still.
A life of pages, waiting to be filled.
A heart that's hopeful, a head that's full of dreams.
But this becoming is harder than it seems.
Feels like I'm.....
(Chorus)
Looking for a reason,
Roaming through the night to find,
My place in this world,
My place in this world.
Not a lot to lean on,
I need your light to help me find
My place in this world,
My place in this world.

If there are millions, down on their knees,
Among the many, can you still hear me?
Hear me asking, "Where do I belong?"
Is there a vision that I can call my own?
Show me I'm...

(Chorus 3X)

This song stuck out to me cause it is asking where do I belong? There was a little of that confusion in several places in the book. I believe that this shows when the girlfriend of Absalom is first introduced, and I believe that is maybe one reason that a lot of the young folk left Ndotsheni as well. They want to find something that is maybe more than themselves, would be the way to put it.  I believe that is found though. The girlfriend finds it in the family with Stephen Kumalo. The sad part is that some lose hope and don't find that home because they stopped trying. I believe that is one reason why Gertrude left that morning. She had given up, and that is why she was leading the life that she was leading when Stephen Kumalo came along.This was just one thing that I thought up.
One more thing that can relate was my favorite quote in the book was, "The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again." -Msimangu
It is so true and I honestly strongly agree with it. Things are broken all the time. The problem comes when those broken things are not mended. South Africa was broken through apartheid and through some of its ideals that it had at the time. Those things were not being mended either and South Africa just seemed to break further and further apart. The nation was divided and as Abraham Lincoln once said, "A house divided cannot stand."  Thus was the situation in South Africa. That's where the unifying power of love came in and was able to pull the nation back together.