Jaded
People can rouse you to anger, but only you can choose to pass it on.
A lot of things in this world are passed on rather than exchanged. We give our love, our joy, our second-hand toys. We pass down stories and legacies and boyhood fantasies. DNA, RNA, and Grade A expectations flow down countless streams of successive generations.
We can also give others the bad day we got from the previous guy. We can vent our anger, releasing it into the air, and anybody nearby will breathe it in. We can teach hate and recalcitrance and self-righteousness the same way we teach our children the English language; people take these things to heart sometimes, and they'll practice what we've preached. We can speak distrust, faithlessness, and fear for the future. And if those faint-hearted hear the message, they will be shaken by it, albeit imperceptibly.
I believe that when it comes to the human spirit, all things are connected. If we practice disrespect towards our parents, we will find ourselves unable to respect, or act with civility towards other people who have given us so much less. If we choose to give in to temptation in one area in our lives, then one day we may find out too late that we've become unable to resist it even when it threatens all that is most important to us. Conversely, if your closest relationships are healthy and well-maintained, then naturally it will follow that you will have self-control and thoughtfulness with all your other connections. If you resist the devil, he will flee from you.
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Many things get passed on rather than exchanged in this world. I think that, because of that, fairness in its simplest sense never occurs naturally. Fairness is something we choose to uphold (when we can/if we feel like it) because we believe in it, because we empathize with our fellows.
I don't subscribe to my own sense of fairness anymore.
That sounds so emo. Lolz... I guess I've just come to the realization that I've never truly been able to entertain a sense of fairness other than my own. We never really treat people fairly, and with the people who matter most, all the fairness in the world is never enough. Because fairness isn't what we need. Because fairness isn't what has gotten us through life all these years. Because what the world needs now, is love, sweet love... Okay this is taking too long.
I've been trying for days to squeeze out introspective, melancholy pearls of worldly wisdom, but this dark and moody thing isn't working like it used to. And I lack the subtlety to say what I really need to say without sending everything back to square one. I'm tired of this, and you must be too. I'll be back when I've dialed down the pretentious monologue.
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im·per·cep·ti·ble
–adjective
1.
very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
2.
not perceptible; not perceived by or affecting the senses.
–noun
3.
something not capable of being perceived by the senses: metaphysical speculation about imperceptibles.
A lot of things in this world are passed on rather than exchanged. We give our love, our joy, our second-hand toys. We pass down stories and legacies and boyhood fantasies. DNA, RNA, and Grade A expectations flow down countless streams of successive generations.
We can also give others the bad day we got from the previous guy. We can vent our anger, releasing it into the air, and anybody nearby will breathe it in. We can teach hate and recalcitrance and self-righteousness the same way we teach our children the English language; people take these things to heart sometimes, and they'll practice what we've preached. We can speak distrust, faithlessness, and fear for the future. And if those faint-hearted hear the message, they will be shaken by it, albeit imperceptibly.
I believe that when it comes to the human spirit, all things are connected. If we practice disrespect towards our parents, we will find ourselves unable to respect, or act with civility towards other people who have given us so much less. If we choose to give in to temptation in one area in our lives, then one day we may find out too late that we've become unable to resist it even when it threatens all that is most important to us. Conversely, if your closest relationships are healthy and well-maintained, then naturally it will follow that you will have self-control and thoughtfulness with all your other connections. If you resist the devil, he will flee from you.
...
Many things get passed on rather than exchanged in this world. I think that, because of that, fairness in its simplest sense never occurs naturally. Fairness is something we choose to uphold (when we can/if we feel like it) because we believe in it, because we empathize with our fellows.
I don't subscribe to my own sense of fairness anymore.
That sounds so emo. Lolz... I guess I've just come to the realization that I've never truly been able to entertain a sense of fairness other than my own. We never really treat people fairly, and with the people who matter most, all the fairness in the world is never enough. Because fairness isn't what we need. Because fairness isn't what has gotten us through life all these years. Because what the world needs now, is love, sweet love... Okay this is taking too long.
I've been trying for days to squeeze out introspective, melancholy pearls of worldly wisdom, but this dark and moody thing isn't working like it used to. And I lack the subtlety to say what I really need to say without sending everything back to square one. I'm tired of this, and you must be too. I'll be back when I've dialed down the pretentious monologue.
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im·per·cep·ti·ble
–adjective
1.
very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
2.
not perceptible; not perceived by or affecting the senses.
–noun
3.
something not capable of being perceived by the senses: metaphysical speculation about imperceptibles.
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