Obstacles.
Normally, if a large rock blocks your road, you would be well-advised simply to find another road. The one exception to this is when duty or previous commitments, even if simply to yourself, demand that you face the obstacle directly - that is, you try to remove the rock.
Even if confronting the obstacle suggests a personal risk, duty and moral obligations must be honored, for personal integrity is a resource which is hard to replenish.
Even if confronting the obstacle suggests a personal risk, duty and moral obligations must be honored, for personal integrity is a resource which is hard to replenish.
posted by Ladarna Daorsa at 5/04/2006
4 Comments:
sometimes you must walk around the rock, only so you can face the rock another day with more strength. Sometimes duty and obligation are meaningless in the larger framework.
Sometimes duty and obligation are only the constructs of the masters that would make you a slave.
This doesn't mean the rock shouldn't be faced, it only means you need every weapon available--sometimes gathering weapons takes time.
Time is never a friend.
Sometimes duty and obligation are only the constructs of the masters that would make you a slave.
Sometimes, yes they are, you will get no argument from *me* about *that*. But do you believe this to be true of duty and obligation one places upon themselves?
I ask because I have been contemplating this much lately. And questioning whether or not I have the tendency, to use Duty and Obligation as excuse, to myself, for much baser desires.
This doesn't mean the rock shouldn't be faced, it only means you need every weapon available--sometimes gathering weapons takes time.
Ah, and this is where you show yourself much wiser than me. And where I reveal my continued trend toward impatience. Another would gather weapons and make a slower, but effective, job of it. I, on the other hand, if deciding the rock must be faced, would go at it then and there, bare footed and with bitten nails, clawing and scraping and banging my forehead bloody. And, no doubt, I would describe that as my "bravery".
Because, yes:
Time is never a friend.
"would go at it then and there, bare footed and with bitten nails, clawing and scraping and banging my forehead bloody."
You sell yourself short here, and to what purpose? Yes, this would probably be your first attempt but what do you gain by believing it would be your *only* method? You are too *calculating* to approach obstacles with just 'tooth and nail' and if anyone is going to attack an obstacle with the appropriate weapons, it is going to be you.
Sometimes duty and obligation are meaningless in the larger framework.
This is very astute.
Dude, she'd so totally have some lever or explosives McGuyver'd up in about 30 minutes flat and goodbye rock. And then, doll, you'd attribute that to your "quickness of mind." ;)
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