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Friday, May 6, 2011
I Know What's Best for You
That's a lie. How could I? I only know what's best for me. Why can the tendency to tell others how to live their lives be so strong? Because, ideally, we want optimal outcomes for each other. Any other questions?
6 comments:
Anonymous
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But can you change the course of a river, or decide which path an avalanche will take? There are many things we can and should control and many others that run through our hands like a spring rain. Believe you will know what you must, and leave the rest to kismet!
Interesting. How can anyone know what's best for me when I don't know what's best for me?
But then there's the question of proximity. Like the impossibility of reading when the book is held too closely to one's face. Someone standing at a distance might be able to see something that the holder of the book is unable to see.
Psychologists might call it projection. Imposing or superimposing the way we happen to see the world on the view of others. Chasing our own tails until we catch IT only to discover that there is only one tail. Something like that. Or not.
6 comments:
But can you change the course of a river, or decide which path an avalanche will take? There are many things we can and should control and many others that run through our hands like a spring rain. Believe you will know what you must, and leave the rest to kismet!
UMITO
UMITO--Thank you for supplying and expanding on another question so eloquently.
Hello:
Interesting. How can anyone know what's best for me when I don't know what's best for me?
But then there's the question of proximity. Like the impossibility of reading when the book is held too closely to one's face. Someone standing at a distance might be able to see something that the holder of the book is unable to see.
Psychologists might call it projection. Imposing or superimposing the way we happen to see the world on the view of others. Chasing our own tails until we catch IT only to discover that there is only one tail. Something like that. Or not.
Ah, desire, desire. I want, I want. Ha Ha Ha.
Just because someone else might see something from a new perspective does not guarantee value.
A wannabe haiku. :-)
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