I don't always do what I believe I should do.
Sometimes I don't know what to do and I try hard to do what I think is best.
Sometimes I make mistakes, honest mistakes, because I honestly don't know any better, I genuinely don't know what to do. And so I make a choice and sometimes it proves not to be the best choice possible, even if it was the best choice I was aware of. This can be frustrating but it's not that much of an issue because I'm motivated to learn from my mistake and become a more aware human being, even if I still make mistakes.
I will always make mistakes. We will always make mistakes. There will always be more for us to learn and know and that means we will always be making choices from a place of limited understanding, never perfectly knowing the consequences of our actions or what is best.
This is all well and good in my books. Totally perfect. It's a part of the creative process that has led the world to where we are now. There's nothing wrong with this but it only takes us so far.
Sometimes I have a strong conviction of what I should do but then I don't do it.
What good would it be to know the best decision to make in every situation if I'm not prepared to act on it? Knowledge of higher values means very little if it's not accompanied by corresponding action.
I often do not choose to live up to what I claim to know. I lack integrity and I realize this. This is nothing new, either.
But what if we could choose to live up to every ideal we wish to uphold? What if we could live a life of flawless integrity? Could such things be possible?
We all have choices to make and we often believe that we're doing the best we can.
For many of us, this is simply untrue. We're not living up to what we claim to believe. We're not doing the best we can and if we look deeply and honestly enough at ourselves we'll see this. This is good news, however, because if we're not doing the best we can it means there is further we can go.
Sometimes I don't know what to do and I try hard to do what I think is best.
Sometimes I make mistakes, honest mistakes, because I honestly don't know any better, I genuinely don't know what to do. And so I make a choice and sometimes it proves not to be the best choice possible, even if it was the best choice I was aware of. This can be frustrating but it's not that much of an issue because I'm motivated to learn from my mistake and become a more aware human being, even if I still make mistakes.
I will always make mistakes. We will always make mistakes. There will always be more for us to learn and know and that means we will always be making choices from a place of limited understanding, never perfectly knowing the consequences of our actions or what is best.
This is all well and good in my books. Totally perfect. It's a part of the creative process that has led the world to where we are now. There's nothing wrong with this but it only takes us so far.
Sometimes I have a strong conviction of what I should do but then I don't do it.
What good would it be to know the best decision to make in every situation if I'm not prepared to act on it? Knowledge of higher values means very little if it's not accompanied by corresponding action.
I often do not choose to live up to what I claim to know. I lack integrity and I realize this. This is nothing new, either.
But what if we could choose to live up to every ideal we wish to uphold? What if we could live a life of flawless integrity? Could such things be possible?
We all have choices to make and we often believe that we're doing the best we can.
For many of us, this is simply untrue. We're not living up to what we claim to believe. We're not doing the best we can and if we look deeply and honestly enough at ourselves we'll see this. This is good news, however, because if we're not doing the best we can it means there is further we can go.
2 comments:
Giving our best is always one of the hard things to grapple with, because depending on what you're talking about, giving your best all the time may not be the best plan of action.
For instance, my ideal of having people wrestle with their spirituality may be reflected in perhaps having as many in depth conversations with a lot of people, but after of having so many of those, I feel wiped out and like I am not really taking anything in. I think it's important to bring your best to a situation but also know what is the best overarching course of action. If I was playing basketball and had to play the whole game, it would be unwise to play hard, fast, aggressive basketball because I would be done in the first quarter and then the rest of the game would be a loss. So, the best way to play my position for an entire game looks different than if I had the ability to substitute. Suddenly giving 100% all of the time is not the best.
I'm not saying you have to compromise, but rather it comes from wisdom of knowing yourself and knowing when to push yourself beyond what you're comfortable and balancing it with caring for yourself so that way you can play the overall game well.
I have no idea, if we're even speaking to the same topic. I just wanted to sound smart.
You sound smart.
I think we're speaking about the same topic.
I think we'd need to define what 'best' really means. In my version of reality, what's 'best' isn't doing any particular thing or things but is more about the type of relationship with life that we have, which can be assumed regardless of whether or not we feel any particular way.
I agree that our idea of 'best' changes the more we enlarge our view to include more of reality.
In essence, I'm pointing to the fact that we often claim that we're doing our 'best' when we are not, that there are times we strongly believe we should make a particular choice and then do not make it, even though we are able.
I'm terrible at basketball.
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