Posted by
Locke on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:39:56 AM
I have been doing some thinking about my life and the world around me.
Through watching people in their lives facing events and issues I have
realized that for every event we are given two options. Either we can
define ourselves through events or we can define events through our
actions. I have been seeing most people doing the former. This presents
a problem.
When one defines their life through the events they
lived through what they are really doing is bringing a piece of
themselves to the event (this is usually a negative event but it works
for any event). The problem here is as you bring part of yourself to an
issue you are breaking yourself. Through bringing yourself to issues
you will find that you will soon no longer be a figurative whole
person. Now what I mean by bringing yourself to an issue is: when you
leave what you are capable of doing to try to effect things that you
can not or are not able to handle. It is just like trying to stop a
lawn mower blade with your hand, when you don't have the proper
equipment you will loose your hand.
In this world one must sit back and handle things as they come. One
must stay where they are able to grapple with a problem safely. If you
can't change it, don't worry about it. That is useless stress. Just
accept what has happened and move on.
I'm sorry if this is just some strange rambling...it is 3 am after all...