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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

to thine ownself be true

whatever happened to the truth shall set you free? whose truth? what is true for one, may not be true to another. Can you BE someone elses truth? I think not. I think if you try to conform yourself to what others try to push onto you, all you are doing is hurting yourself. You must go with what feels right FOR YOU. Period. Forget all the horseshit and drama of playing nice, being fair, seeing both sides -- go with your gut, then take the consequences. At least you did what was the truth for YOU. And if what you do is wrong, what of it? Can you live with yourself for having done something, and failed? Why not fail? How can you ever succeed without ever failing? Perfect Is Boring. Perfect Is Not Real. Why hold yourself up to the standard of Perfect, when it Does Not Exist? People make mistakes all the time. Better than that -- better still -- people forgive -- all the time. And in forgiving, they may never see your truth, but they accept that its there, and its real - to you. to thine ownself be true.

peace out

posted by sara @ 11:11 PM  

1 Comments:

  • At 9/28/2005 11:36 PM, Blogger Constant said…

    SARA: "whatever happened to the truth shall set you free?"

    - CONSTANT: Yes, it does set you free. Can we always handle the truth immediately; does softening help with indirectness or politeness?

    S: "whose truth?"

    - C: Good point: Some may assert "their truth"

    S: "what is true for one, may not be true to another."

    - C: Indeed

    S: "Can you BE someone elses truth?"

    - C: Perhaps.

    S: "I think not."

    - C: Perhaps

    S: "I think if you try to conform yourself to what others try to push onto you, all you are doing is hurting yourself."

    - C: Yes. Sometimes conformance is good when considering some things; it is not clear when it is.

    S: "You must go with what feels right FOR YOU."

    - C: Sometimes feelings are imperfect guides to prudence.

    S: "Period."

    - C: Maybe

    S: "Forget all the horseshit and drama of playing nice, being fair, seeing both sides -- go with your gut, then take the consequences."

    - C: Sometimes the gut can be clouded by emotion; or guided what appears to be true, but is false.

    S: "At least you did what was the truth for YOU."

    - C: Sometimes "doing nothing" is prudent.

    S: "And if what you do is wrong, what of it?"

    - C: Sometimes "wrong" can be a habit that needs to be corrected.

    S: "Can you live with yourself for having done something, and failed?"

    - C: Failure, if it becomes a habit, needs to be understood.

    S: "Why not fail? How can you ever succeed without ever failing?"

    - C: The goal of life may not be to learn, but to simply "choose to define life as we want it to be." If that is true, then one can succeed; for success doesn't mean failure, but an absense of failure.

    S: "Perfect Is Boring."

    - C: Is imperfection boring?

    S: "Perfect Is Not Real."

    - C: What is unreal?

    S: "Why hold yourself up to the standard of Perfect, when it Does Not Exist?"

    - C: Does the mind imagine "perfection", but it cannot be real as a goal or desire?

    S: "People make mistakes all the time."

    - C: True; but life may not necessarily be "successful" by focusing on the "journey of failures". It is prudent to remedy an imperfect "habit of failure".


    S: "Better than that -- better still -- people forgive -- all the time."

    - C: Do they forgive themselves when it is most needed?

    S: "And in forgiving, they may never see your truth, but they accept that its there, and its real - to you."

    - C: Maybe.

    S: "to thine ownself be true."

    - C: Maybe. ;-) perhaps it is "to thine own self be more true than . . . "

    Peace out :-)

     

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