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Questions...?
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 11:20PM What if we got good at being ourselves?
What if we changed the world by being “professional” (insert your name here)’s?
What if becoming wholer versions of ourselves was the very thing that had the power to change things?
What if one of the hardest things to ever do was to face ourselves and our pains?
What if we spent time helping ourselves and others to find courage to fight for themselves?
What if?
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Thoughts?
Reader Comments (5)
Someone once told me that I try so hard to be different, that the things I do set me apart from everyone around me, isolating me from the women I want and desire, and making it harder for them to understand me. Because I hadn't experienced classical music as much as I should have, read classical literature as much as I would have liked, and been as culturally diverse as I felt I wanted to be, I set out to make it my New Year's Resolution for 2010. In the last six months I've attended three operas: La Boheme, La Cenerentola, and The Barber of Seville; been to 10 classical music events, and read two literary classics: Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment with a third in progress, War and Peace. I've been told that people my age just don't do these kinds of things, they don't have the time passion or energy to pursue such refined states. Time I can understand but passion and energy, that's not something you work at, it's something inherent within you. It's not that I try to be different, by no means do I compare myself with other people in the things I choose to do, and actively pursue those differences, I may compare characteristics that I lack yes, but it's more so ideas and images of who and what I want to be. On one level, from one side and perspective of me, if I got good at being myself, I would be but a fraction of the very idea I seek in this world.
Yet another side of me is a curiosity about the world and the state of nations. There was a time when I did not believe in the idea and concept of hope, in a time long ago, people had Martin Luther King and Kennedy as their heroes, here and now, we have Obama. Not to be drawn into dear leader so blindly, I don't think it's so much the reality that stirs me as it is the idea, belief, and hope that idealism trumps cynicism. Yet even in our time, it's hard to understand jihad and the Christian divide, the level of civilization in the Western world with the reality of Darfur, and the tensions between nations. On a local level, I love volunteering for candidates running for city council, state senate and house elections, I love canvassing and I love talking to voters. The thing I love most about it is that I get to know these politicians on a personal level, so much so that I can identify a great many things we have in common. These are the men and women who make our government run, and they have increased my desire to be one among them in a future I desire still, if I was professional, if I was a wholer version of myself.
I think the hardest thing to ever do is face ourselves, our pains, and our fears. On a human level, no one is perfect, we all have our flaws, we all have to live with ourselves and face who and what we are. The true measure of any man or woman is accepting themselves, being content with who and where they are in life, it's a comfort we all seek to attain, we cannot know peace without it. If we spent time helping others to find courage to fight for themselves, the world might be a better place, perhaps then we could call ourselves civilized absent of the eye of the beholder.
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