There's something sad about living in this world, where nobody can claim a good conscience. Groups of us live comfortably while others don't have a roof and walls to shelter them, or much food to eat -- for example. But that's in the abstract. Aside from that, there's the question of small (and more real) sins we commit closer to home. We're all guilty of hurting other people's feelings, or of wrecking other people's lives because we did things without having thought things through.
But to what extent is one person responsible for another person's well-being? Aren't we all responsible for our own happiness? If, for example, I find myself in an unhappy situation because of what other people did, isn't it up to me to change my perspective so that I'm not as affected by those other people -- maybe by letting go of whatever's causing the hurt and not thinking too much about it? Instead of finding ways to blame them?
Why do we bind ourselves to other people to the point where they're responsible for what goes on in our minds and hearts?
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(This has been an exercise in assuaging my own guilt.)
25 April, 2008
For not being kind enough to humanity.
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2 comments:
Diz,
Great questions. I read somewhere something like this(from self motivation books perhaps?): "We are not responsible for everything that happens to us, but how we react to situation is our responsibility. I will always try to remember that.
Sometimes we take too seriously the term: You make me happy and bla, bla, bla. Shoot, if we don't know and cannot make ourselves happy, how in heaven somebody can make us happy?
That's what I figure, too. But it's hard convincing yourself sometimes that you don't always have to be there for people; or that you have to help fix people's problems.
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