I don’t think that young men realize the impact that their mere existence and presence has on us young women. Of course, I also believe that I as a young woman do not realize my impact on them. In point of fact, most people do not realize the far reaching effects of what they do. It's a fact, often observed by many different sorts of people.
It's interesting that we as human beings always want to see beyond that which we currently can see. How do we even know that there's anything else out there to see? Isn't it possible that we can't see it all?
Thank goodness there are many people who do not think this way. If there were, or rather, if they were the majority, I believe our world would be God's collection of ignorant fools. And yet, I am constantly amused, bewildered, bothered, and occasionally even vexed at choices that people make.
Why wear clothing that covers nothing but that which is necessary to have yourself be begrudgingly approved of as "covered-up... enough".
Why repeat mistakes that you know better than to make? I'm not talking about little ones like having ice-cream when you know better, but ones which have potential for consequences on a much more grand scale.
Why have guardianship over a child that you show no love for? That you do not keep home for his own good (and that of others') when he is sick?
Why let yourself be deluded into thinking that what you are doing is in others' best interest, when it isn't?
Why not follow the counsel of those who have "been there [where you are] and done that"? Shouldn't they know what they're talking about?
Why suspect others of personality errors that belong to yourself?
Why sacrifice the eternal for the temporal?
Why adorn oneself ostentatiously?
All in all- why are people so stupid sometimes?
Before continuing further, I would like to clarify something. By "stupid" I do not mean to imply those with low intelligence. Rather, I mean people who make bad choices and live lives of the natural man when they know better. I just can't fathom why. If you know that one choice will make you happy for long-term, while the other won't, why choose the second? It just does not make sense. Why choose contrary to principles that you believe?
Or perhaps, the question is- how is that people can sustain opinions which are amazingly contrary to their beliefs? How is it that a man who dislikes "know-it-alls" behaves as one himself? It just does not make sense.
Yes, yes, yes, I know. We often see what is that scripture? Mote in someone else's eye, but completely miss seeing the beam in our own eye- or something like that. Human nature. Or is it human nurture?
And that brings me to psychology. Nature vs. Nurture. These are my thoughts.
We all come to Earth in a body with a divine spirit that is who knows how old. Our spirit comes with a great deal of our personality.
Perhaps the personality it comes with is our fundamental values and our task in this life is to expand on those basics, preparing our personality for the eternities.
Or maybe that personality comes per-packaged with all of our character traits- our strengths and weaknesses, and our goal in this life (living on Earth, I mean) is to take the bits of our personality that shine through (for we cannot immediately see all aspects of it) and improve upon them, eventually becoming what our God sees- His divine daughter, with a radiant personality. Eventually expanding on our strengths and strengthening our weaknesses, until we come to a junction where we abandon imperfection for perfection, student for teacher.
I find it hard to believe that such a junction exists- such a pivotal junction. No, indeed, not. Not all of its severity in one place, at least. It is broken up for our benefit. There are little junctions all along life. At each junction we make a choice- which way will I travel today? There are many different paths, and we must each decide for ourselves which path we travel. We have road maps, and have been taught since a young age (well, many of us have been taught this) the laws for which way to travel at certain junction situations. Using this knowledge, we are able to perfect our personality. The junctions are the junctions that we encounter on the way to a perfect happiness, with a perfect personality.
So, then, what happens? Well, you see, sometimes we can't see the junctions up ahead. We can't see that some paths of travel are unwise to take because they take us off-course from that ultimate goal we made at the junction between Heaven and Earth. The promise to return to our Father in Heaven, and follow in His and His sons' footsteps. The Heaven-Earth Junction is critical. It occurs at both the beginning and the ending of life. It is first where we decide to come and perfect ourselves. This is the beginning of our life on Earth. The second junction is at the close of life- when we, as actresses and actors, all bow before our audience, and (hopefully) go to see our God, being worthy to live with Him in His lovely mansions, and if those don't work, well then, Father in Heaven prepared us for that at our first junction, by telling us to endure to the end. At the end of our travel is a fantastic mansion. There the junctions end. Or do they? Do they end, or do they continue, as always, for all of us?
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