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I really hate
May. 12th, 2010 05:34 pmpeople who are irrational.
I really hate people who exclude, instead of include.
I really hate people who can only see one side of things, and refuse to try and understand the other side.
I feel like so many times you get things like this, and it's so off balance. There's one side that tries to account for both sides, to walk the middle line, and another that's just dragging the balance down because it's weighed so forcefully on one end, only one end, tilting the whole spectrum.
Either that, or it's two sides who can each only see their world, and the fight gets down and dirty and this is what reality TV shows are all about, petty fights, people who refuse to listen to each other.
If everybody took a step back, if everybody tried to be a little, just a little more considerate, fights wouldn't even exist in the world because compromises can be easily reached.
Try and think for everyone, a little, and when you come across someone who thinks only for himself, laugh and let it go, because that's what it means to be mature. That's what it means to be grown up, that's what it means to forgive. Forgive everyone, and when someone does not forgive you, laugh it off because it's not important and you know it.
It just upsets me sometimes, that the weight of the world is so off balance and there is nothing to be done about it until (unless) it rights itself, because those who know the truth, know the truth, and also know that no amount of explaining will make themselves right to those who don't want to leave Plato's Cave, that judgment cannot be explained by oneself and should only be left up to others. To judge.
I am not suggesting that I am out of the cave or that you are in it. We are all in shadow, all of us, and no one can be sure whether Plato is outside his cave or actually the delusional one inside the cave. I can't even unravel myself, so of course I cannot even begin to unravel anyone else; I just wish that less people would insist that they were the butterfly, or they were the man, and more people would accept (not even, just accept the possibility) that they are both, neither, that there is no real way to tell who they really are.
(Or maybe I am completely delusional and everyone else is completely sure of who they are, in which case I will continue flitting in and out of realities, one odd one out, don't mind me...)
re: icon: If I were an animal, I would be a squirrel. Just because.
I really hate people who exclude, instead of include.
I really hate people who can only see one side of things, and refuse to try and understand the other side.
I feel like so many times you get things like this, and it's so off balance. There's one side that tries to account for both sides, to walk the middle line, and another that's just dragging the balance down because it's weighed so forcefully on one end, only one end, tilting the whole spectrum.
Either that, or it's two sides who can each only see their world, and the fight gets down and dirty and this is what reality TV shows are all about, petty fights, people who refuse to listen to each other.
If everybody took a step back, if everybody tried to be a little, just a little more considerate, fights wouldn't even exist in the world because compromises can be easily reached.
Try and think for everyone, a little, and when you come across someone who thinks only for himself, laugh and let it go, because that's what it means to be mature. That's what it means to be grown up, that's what it means to forgive. Forgive everyone, and when someone does not forgive you, laugh it off because it's not important and you know it.
It just upsets me sometimes, that the weight of the world is so off balance and there is nothing to be done about it until (unless) it rights itself, because those who know the truth, know the truth, and also know that no amount of explaining will make themselves right to those who don't want to leave Plato's Cave, that judgment cannot be explained by oneself and should only be left up to others. To judge.
I am not suggesting that I am out of the cave or that you are in it. We are all in shadow, all of us, and no one can be sure whether Plato is outside his cave or actually the delusional one inside the cave. I can't even unravel myself, so of course I cannot even begin to unravel anyone else; I just wish that less people would insist that they were the butterfly, or they were the man, and more people would accept (not even, just accept the possibility) that they are both, neither, that there is no real way to tell who they really are.
(Or maybe I am completely delusional and everyone else is completely sure of who they are, in which case I will continue flitting in and out of realities, one odd one out, don't mind me...)
re: icon: If I were an animal, I would be a squirrel. Just because.
