I’m going to have to get to this one tomorrow in the morning, I’m too tired right now. I’m thinking of the two most recent posts, about life on other planets and rights versus suicide, I just need to go back and see what else ties into the questions these posts have generated in my mind. I have a headache coming on and I can feel it to be a doozy if I don’t rest my eyes immediately. So til tomorrow.
Today is tomorrow and I’ve picked three recent posts that made me think and they were fairly serious questions about one’s views on the greater scheme of life.
1. How do I decide what risks to take, this is a tough one. I don’t think of myself as being a risk taker, I just do life as it comes, generally. However, thinking about it, everything in life is a risk.
2. Do you think people have the right to commit suicide? Suicide is such a difficult subject. Answering a question like this is really all about judgement. Taking one’s life, is it a judgement call? In the circumstance that you wind up a vegetable for the rest of your life, is it fair to deny you the right to make the judgement call of whether you want to continue your existence or not? If you are in such pain, either physical or emotional, is it fair to judge, that someone should continue to suffer? Aren’t they allowed to pass judgement on themselves, that since their quality of life is in question, aren’t they the best ones to answer that call. However, if one is strung out on drugs or alcohol, are they still capable of judging their situation, or in this circumstance, is it really only a call for help for the real problem at hand, addiction? How does one judge which circumstance merits the person in question, the right to decide for themselves if they should end their life or not?
3. Whose responsibility is it to change the world?Yours, mine, ours? The question is, is it possible for us to change the world? The question also presupposes that the world needs changing. Some may believe that the world is fine the way it is. Those that are at the pinnacle of success, may be content, and would defy anyone attempting to change the rules.
The common theme is that these viewpoints are all about you and how you fit in the world. The questions are also highly subjective, I’m sure there was nary a similar answer to any of these questions. What I’ve learned from writing and answering these questions, is that I have a very strong aversion to any form of judgment. I don’t know where it came from. I know that I believe that it is of great importance to be kind and to think of others.
I am struggling with this post, maybe it’s because I have to comment on my own writings or maybe I am making this more difficult than it needs to be. All I really need to say is that I am still trying to discover my voice and what I have to say. Like I stated before, looking back on those previous posts, the common thread was judgment and my feelings on how it can be used by some at the expense of others. I don’t know, feel free to comment and let me know what you think.