beyond infinity wrote:Let them do what they think is right, for you canna change it.
That is the very point where I ask myself: Isn't that what those tales talk about - the grey masses that see the evil but just feel too tired / preoccupied / lazy to do something about it? I know, the alternative would be a call to lay fire to the barricades... :-/
Respect is something to be earned rather than to be expected *per se*.
I also meant the respect for the
unknown person. Things I observed in the last 24 hours:
No respect payed to the guy in the other car - so he can't go faster than 120 km/h, is that grounds to deny him the right to overtake the truck on the highway only because you could go even faster? Or shouldn't you pay respect and let him overtake, taking his time, then give a friendly wave and be on your way?
No respect payed to the construction worker standing on the street trying to organize the traffic around a maneuvering truck in a corner - so he's holding you up, is that grounds to assume you
can go around the corner? Or shouldn't you pay respect to him perhaps seeing things you don't, and wait until the situation is cleared? (Smarta**es from
both sides thought they could just ignore him, ending up in queues in both directions and the truck being unable to move - no-one went anywhere for about half an hour.)
No respect payed to those responsible running the commuter trains - so they're late today, is that grounds to assume they're not doing as best as they can? Or shouldn't you pay respect, smile and know that it's as stressful for them as it is for you?
No respect payed to the one stepping back from the tram's doors in the station so others can
debarge - is that grounds to deny him a seating by elbowing your way inside even before the last one got out? Or shouldn't you step aside too, to make the whole thing easy and enjoyable for all involved? (After all, I was there first, I was trying to be friendly, and the result was I was standing for the better part of an hour because I gave those tie-wearing a**h**** a chance...)
The World is full of beauty.
And I sometimes think I have the curse of Raistlin. (For those not having read Dragon Lance, Raistlin is a mage cursed to see decay in even the greatest beauty.)
I'll spare you the details, but every look at nature is spoiled for me by being aware of the greenhouse effect that made the hottest ten summers of 120 years of temperature tracking occur after 1990, and US' defiance for the Kyoto protocol; of two third's of the remaining forests in this country dying or being severely ill; how every place you look there are houses, roads, cars, engines; how every piece of blue sky is crisscrossed with plane trails from the Frankfurt airport; how every path through the "nature's reservoir" I'm living in is littered with empty cans and other trash; how little time my life leaves me to enjoy a moment of silence...
Take the essence of Zen and Buddhism and
... don't panic.
You mean if I wear a set of glasses that go black when something bad happens, I won't be so affected by it?
One thing about 'starving' people: If you drive by tube and such a slug(they 're called 'bum') is coming along begging for mo'money - and is stinking like devils butt with an odeur of alcohol - I beg your pardon, but I don't have much pity.
I don't mean them - all they have to do is to play a bit by the rules, and apply for wellfare.
I mean the people
starving to death all over the world - if they're not selling their souls as kid soldiers or prodtitutes. Even the lowliest homeless here in Germany has the
chance to live a better life than a kid in Ethopia or in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
They have nowhere to go.
Hm, and once again, I recognize a certain writers gift in your sentences. *gg* Have you by any chance attended some writers workshop?
Never. But once, as a teenager, I was dreaming about becoming a writer, a poet even, inspired by Tolkien and his ilk, because I felt this gift being strong in me... why I didn't? Simple: Because chances are you can't make a living of it.
So much for "working for fullfilment". Reality bites. :-\