be kind; the universe owes you nothing
“When you recognize yourself feeling contempt for a human being, stop.
When you recognize yourself judging or ridiculing a human being, stop.
When you recognize yourself boiling human matters down to black and white, consider the gray areas.
Stay away from people who do the above things. Seriously. I avoid serially snarky people like the god-damn plague. Yes, there’s always room for a bit of viciousness and sarcasm in humor, and I can accept that. What I can not abide by an individual who cannot open their mouth without some sort of judgmental remark coming out of it. All the more when they shrink up/blow up when that sort of treatment is reversed upon them.
One more thing: the universe entitles you to nothing. You are not entitled to happiness, prosperity, wealth, anything at all. Any suffering you feel, or have felt does not mean you get any more of a break in life than anyone else. You are not owed a damn thing in this world. Do not ever act as if you are. Avoid people who do.
That being said: be kind. The only time you will catch a break is from someone who goes out of their way to be kind to you. Do so yourself, regardless of the above fact. This isn’t about fate or karma or any such mystical claptrap. It is about knowing you are, as much as you can, doing the right thing.”
–http://ask.metafilter.com/157204/Shiny-happy-people-speak-out#2253229, via google reader
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“When you recognize yourself judging or ridiculing a human being, stop.”
This seems a bit incongruous of a statement, given the general attitude of the crew I often spot you hanging with, FalseProfit.
Hanging out near them, I have never before heard such exclusiveness, snarkiness, judgment, and ridicule.
Just sayin.
tellingly incongruous that you also just placed a blanket judgment on an entire group of people in order to make your point. snarkiness – yes. exclusiveness? maybe – we all choose our friends, don’t we? but judgment and ridicule? i beg to differ.
however, i am in no position to defend an entire group and so i will leave it at that. i can only speak for myself. a big part of the reason i posted this is not because i think this is something i live up to – it’s a reminder to myself as much as anyone else. it’s something i work on, try to be conscious about, and know i could do better in (except for the shades of gray. i think i’ve got a good handle on seeing shades of gray.)
Fair. I guess I really don’t know any of them personally.
I regretted posting that immediately. My family could also be criticized the same.
I just guess that all of our peoples, in various families all are fabulous, and feel fabulous, and that is easily misinterpreted.
so can i ask, then – and this is an honest question – if you don’t personally know any of my FP friends, then what has given you this impression that you have? where did you encounter FP people that made you feel this way – where you at an event, was there a specific instance, or just a “vibe”?