Freedom
I have issues, heaps of them but today I shall blog of one that has been troubling me a lot lateley.
I have been told on many occassions by this one person that I am very close to that I have this habit. My habit according to this source is that I have the knack for blaming everyone else for my negative emotions eg. anger, sadness and not taking any responsibilities for anything myself. i.e according to source I should be able to not let other people affect my moods, e.g if someone says something rude, or is being insensitive I can choose to react in a positive mood, i.e not get angry. Said source seems to live by this philosophy, only in reverse, as in source is allowed to get angry at other people, but if source does something that another person finds offensive then it's not sources' problem because this person should have chosen to react better, i.e not be offendend. I don't know if this is clear to anyone, if I am explaining this right. Anyway, my whole point is that I do not know how someone in their right mind can choose to ignore someone elsels suffering, choose to absolve themself of any wrongdoing. I don't know what kind of mind believes that they are so above it all that they are untouchable and therefore do not take any responsibility for how they make other people feel. Said person of course when confronted with any possible wrongdoing will invariably respond with "that's your problem, deal with it, it's got nothing to do with me".
Ok, call me crazy, but I do not believe this is right at all, to make it so that you absolve yourself of any wrongdoing. I can only imagine this type of freedom, the freedom to believe that one is always right, that one can do no wrong and truly believe it without a shadow of a doubt. It would be so nice not to feel guilty when you hurt someone, because being a citizen of this land of no wrongdoing and not accepting responsibility would mean you were blind to all the repurcussions.
Freedom, is it the right to choose to be happy about something when you really aren't, or is it the freedom to ignore how you make others feel because they should be evolved enough to choose to be happy when they really aren't?
Sorry for the strange blog, have had a very taxing day. Off to see if any of you fared better than I did.
I have been told on many occassions by this one person that I am very close to that I have this habit. My habit according to this source is that I have the knack for blaming everyone else for my negative emotions eg. anger, sadness and not taking any responsibilities for anything myself. i.e according to source I should be able to not let other people affect my moods, e.g if someone says something rude, or is being insensitive I can choose to react in a positive mood, i.e not get angry. Said source seems to live by this philosophy, only in reverse, as in source is allowed to get angry at other people, but if source does something that another person finds offensive then it's not sources' problem because this person should have chosen to react better, i.e not be offendend. I don't know if this is clear to anyone, if I am explaining this right. Anyway, my whole point is that I do not know how someone in their right mind can choose to ignore someone elsels suffering, choose to absolve themself of any wrongdoing. I don't know what kind of mind believes that they are so above it all that they are untouchable and therefore do not take any responsibility for how they make other people feel. Said person of course when confronted with any possible wrongdoing will invariably respond with "that's your problem, deal with it, it's got nothing to do with me".
Ok, call me crazy, but I do not believe this is right at all, to make it so that you absolve yourself of any wrongdoing. I can only imagine this type of freedom, the freedom to believe that one is always right, that one can do no wrong and truly believe it without a shadow of a doubt. It would be so nice not to feel guilty when you hurt someone, because being a citizen of this land of no wrongdoing and not accepting responsibility would mean you were blind to all the repurcussions.
Freedom, is it the right to choose to be happy about something when you really aren't, or is it the freedom to ignore how you make others feel because they should be evolved enough to choose to be happy when they really aren't?
Sorry for the strange blog, have had a very taxing day. Off to see if any of you fared better than I did.
posted by tash at 11:20 PM
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