There are no bad students only bad teachers
It is up to each of us to determine our course of action, what is a transgression we should ignore, what transgressions are over the top, when has a transgression been repeated to many times to ignore, and truly what is our definition of a transgression.
I have three sticking points in my life:
Don't Lie
Don't Cheat
Don't Steal
based on upbringing there are shades of gray on many other subjects.
example:
Killing - never take life unjustly
that's right unjustly, once again an interpretive prone subject
The three usually can all be applied at once to the same situation most times for me. If you are cheating me out of money, then you are definitely stealing both time and money from me, and lying point blank about the need for it.
Unfortunately, I have yet to learn control over one anger trigger in my life beyond the complete and utter annihilation of the one who is transgressing against me with all tools at my disposal, but only in anger and not with calm ease.
Transgressions-
an act, process, or instance of transgressing:
as a: infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty
I said the other night at class, "Is it not honorable to do an act usually requested of you without waiting for the request, and then not expecting a reward?"
So should I take it as a passable transgression, or a transgression at all that my roommate who shares the same bathroom, doesn't clean it.
Or is it a build up.
He shaved his brother's head, and the side of his, uses the tp for tissue, and throws a lot away all in the trash can, plus he uses most of the counter space, of course showers and uses the facilities, but has not once cleaned up the bathroom or taken out the trash.
A man much wiser than me once said:
"Don't sweat the small stuff. It's all small stuff."
So where is my issue perhaps?
Another wiser said:
"Enjoy the little things, for they are what is important in life"
Or in the great cycle of learning one philosophizer stated:
"In the beginning only the small things matter; your first step, your first word, even your first breath, then you realize the small things don't matter; bigger things are important to you, college, girls, who cares about chores, however, when we drift to the end of our life we realize that yes the small things are only what matters; a beautiful sunrise, company, hellos, smiles, nature being around."
So where is the invisible line drawn, unfortunately for me it's somewhere unknown and constantly drifting. Which small is forgettable and which is a transgression?
Can I even exist in a society which more or less rewards those who are able to lie, cheat, and steal their way ahead, yet once they have "arrived" damns all who try the same on them?
If I cannot, if my kind cannot, is their a place on earth that is reachable?
Or must we create our own, can we, can we last until then?
How many times must we be the ones to show others how to act before they can take it upon themselves to act?
I have three sticking points in my life:
Don't Lie
Don't Cheat
Don't Steal
based on upbringing there are shades of gray on many other subjects.
example:
Killing - never take life unjustly
that's right unjustly, once again an interpretive prone subject
The three usually can all be applied at once to the same situation most times for me. If you are cheating me out of money, then you are definitely stealing both time and money from me, and lying point blank about the need for it.
Unfortunately, I have yet to learn control over one anger trigger in my life beyond the complete and utter annihilation of the one who is transgressing against me with all tools at my disposal, but only in anger and not with calm ease.
Transgressions-
an act, process, or instance of transgressing:
as a: infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty
I said the other night at class, "Is it not honorable to do an act usually requested of you without waiting for the request, and then not expecting a reward?"
So should I take it as a passable transgression, or a transgression at all that my roommate who shares the same bathroom, doesn't clean it.
Or is it a build up.
He shaved his brother's head, and the side of his, uses the tp for tissue, and throws a lot away all in the trash can, plus he uses most of the counter space, of course showers and uses the facilities, but has not once cleaned up the bathroom or taken out the trash.
A man much wiser than me once said:
"Don't sweat the small stuff. It's all small stuff."
So where is my issue perhaps?
Another wiser said:
"Enjoy the little things, for they are what is important in life"
Or in the great cycle of learning one philosophizer stated:
"In the beginning only the small things matter; your first step, your first word, even your first breath, then you realize the small things don't matter; bigger things are important to you, college, girls, who cares about chores, however, when we drift to the end of our life we realize that yes the small things are only what matters; a beautiful sunrise, company, hellos, smiles, nature being around."
So where is the invisible line drawn, unfortunately for me it's somewhere unknown and constantly drifting. Which small is forgettable and which is a transgression?
Can I even exist in a society which more or less rewards those who are able to lie, cheat, and steal their way ahead, yet once they have "arrived" damns all who try the same on them?
If I cannot, if my kind cannot, is their a place on earth that is reachable?
Or must we create our own, can we, can we last until then?
How many times must we be the ones to show others how to act before they can take it upon themselves to act?
posted by Ev|Gen|us at 23:38
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