Albert Einstein said that ENERGY cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another. From that, I realized that ATTITUDE is a form of ENERGY, and I based that from the definition of energy itself. We are but normal people with different forms of energies in hand. Since science made the concept of understanding easy for us, it is our responsibility to dwell into science and start to understand. We MUST not force other people on the idea that they should stay the way they are before. Because they are people, they have their own attitudes, they possess unique kinds of energies. And as people we are slaves of change. We have the right to utilize the kind of energy bestowed upon us; whether we'll change it or conserve it.
Many times I ask myself why people kept on asking. Why can't they just be silent and observe, so that they can find the answers themselves? At that point, I told myself that we are creatures of wisdom, we crave for knowledge, we crave for truth. And since I am a creature of wisdom, I start asking myself. What is vague to me is the idea of living in a black and white world. Why should we continuously say that we must live in black and white, can't we put into consideration the existence of gray as a kind of shade. And also the existence of other colors we know. Why settle on the idea that there are only two things to put into consideration, what is bad and what is good? Now tell me how bad is bad, and how good is good?
Since I let you follow my thoughts in existence, I have to admit that there are vices that I want to defend. Vices which started to exist in me. Yes, they exist in me but it doesn't mean I let myself live with those vices forever. I smoke. And some people protest against smoking. What I understand in such protest is that they want to totally erase the idea of smoking or smoking itself in every inch of the world. As if smoking never existed. There, I want to proclaim my stand that when something is already injected in the existence of the world, it is impossible to erase such thing. If some people would build up a strong and brute force against it, living in the idea of having clean fresh air. Then I call them ridiculous. Call me ridiculous as well, if I still respect them though. I am ridiculously respecting them, if that's the case. If they continue such protest or campaign, I tell them, STOP using your cars and start biking instead. It's clean air you're after right? Why turn up the heat against smoking if there are so many things around us that we could focus on? We're just wasting all our mental and emotional energies to life forms we cannot mold into a new. Why not start with having an ANTI-BOASTFUL campaign instead?
I intentionally, spilled a disgraceful analogy, which I barely thought of because, I wanted to open up something on respect. We have to respect everyone no matter how bad or how good they are. The problem is, we usually think of what other people should do, or what other people should be, not knowing that we are losing focus on our own improvement.
I love Buddhism, aside from the fact that they were able to build a gender-free religion, they never force anyone to be engaged in Buddhism because they believe in the concept that only the person could find a way towards his own liberation.
The liberation of the mind and the spirit depends on who searches it and how he finds a way towards it; not on the concept that someone pointed the way and forced him to choose that path. It's not important whether it took him a long time to be there, as long as he was able to get there, then that's it. We just have to respect other people's views on matters. We may guide them but we have to be open on the fact that guidelines are useless to people who do not want to be guided.
To this, I say, STAY FREE, because I am looking forward to your liberation, my friend. And mine, too.
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