Thursday, November 17, 2011
Composure
So, after a long day I really just want to compress. I could go on and on about people I dislike or what frustrates me but I choose not to. I choose not to because deep down a little implanted voice reminds me that what is written is forever and will determine how I am remembered when I'm gone. There are times when I feel there are people in this world who really don't deserve to breathe my oxygen, I can admit it, and I bet others can too. Yet that voice tells me yet again that everyone born into this world will affect it. Since I believe there is an absolute balance between good and bad/evil I can say that whether that person's affect is negative or positive it has moved the world forward. Only with negativity can the individuals of this world be prompted to retaliate with optimism. These thoughts comfort me and help me move on from my petty dispute with others. So the next time you tease someone for who they are, laugh at a joke just because a friend is or do anything that afterwords you reflect on with feelings of moral discomfort remember that your actions now will be the oils of the portrait in which you are displayed when gone. This may seem like a burden to think that your every day is a test of your significance but its truly not a burden. If you are only yourself and no one else it will be so much easier to forgive yourself for mistakes. There are a lot of yous in this post. It's not that my individualism is on solid ground its just that I worry about the majority losing themselves rather than just a single person (myself).
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Sam, I love how when you say something that I have been hearing all my life I look at it in a whole new way. When I read this post I instantly though of the 3x law that states: what you put out will return 3x towards you. I also think of this law whenever I do a small good dead and I like to think "How will I see this return to me, and what form will it take?" This law is something I find very easy to believe in because I feel like, as my grandmother put it, "yucky things happen to yucky people." This phrase always rings true with me because whenever someone does something bad it will always come back to them in some sort of bad event.
ReplyDeleteI believe that some of the good that comes out of bad people are the lessons. We can learn something from everyone, no matter who they are or how they treat us. If we never tried to learn anything from the bad ones and just put them out of our mind completely, how do we know we would never end up becoming jerks ourselves?
ReplyDeleteso I agree with what you said about retaliating with optimism. good thing there is a little evil here and there, otherwise what would we be? just unfeeling, emotionless blobs? some people already are. Sometimes we get angry at the bad people. We shout at the TV because they are swindling the poor or cheating with their money. But we can't just stop at being angry. We need to turn this anger into something useful for ourselves, whether it be motivation to solve a frustrating problem, or focus to help ourselves understand the right and wrong of the situation and figure out where we stand.
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