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Relativity
Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 5:40 PM
Nothing in life is absolute. What is true to you may not necessarily be true to others.
I choose my reality everyday. I live within the four corners of my mind, which is not a very ideal place to stay at within long periods of time. I am usually a victim of my own harsh judgement (of myself) with no room for vindication. This has been the deal with me ever since, and I fear it will always stay that way. You see, I choose who I am, as can you. Mostly I choose to be honest. Although people can take advantage of me for it, to know where I am coming from, I let my other perception of them win often. It could be my skepticism or cynicism to people and there are only a select few that I trust (in which case I hope I am making the right choices), yet I still try to find the good in them and see it instead as an opportunity to open myself up to people. Here's what I think; honesty can easily give them leverage, but I'm honest anyway. That's a lot like me, I am a bunch of "anyways". Yes, but not quite. Most, but not all. Nothing in life is absolute. But have you ever thought it can take just you to make all the difference? Choose well. |
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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