Good Evening, Good Evening All. Hope you're enjoying another Sunday Night!
This weekend we've celebrated the Jewish New Year. This can certainly be a new beginning for all of us!
This year, as we're looking towards an analysis of our shortcomings, failures, and errors in the past year, we're also asking for further opportunities to get it right, now that we've learned our lessons.
Specifically, to re-address an old subject, I'd like to touch on how unfair it sometimes seems that when two or more people commit the same offense, one might suffer consequences for their actions, and another might skate away no worse for the wear. If you're the one who has to suffer the consequences, that's very frustrating situation.
However, we can't get triggered by that perceived unfairness.
(1) Deflecting and whatabouting are not the right responses to our consequences. Throwing shade at others, deserved or not, does not exonerate us. If we are presented with deserved consequences, we face them and get past them.
(2) Chances are better than average that we've dodged bullets too. This might be their turn instead.
(3) Having actually facing these consequences allows us to become stronger and wiser than those who escaped them. It's they who might end up getting spoiled, believing that they have immunity and impunity when they don't.
Stoicism teaches us that we cannot control external events, and we accordingly need not concern ourselves with them. They got away with it? It's not fair? So is the way that fortune allows. We have an opportunity to learn from the error of our ways, but they don't.
And if they go too long without facing such consequences? There's a Lady Named Karma. OMLK.
I EXIST. I MATTER. I BELONG. I DESERVE.
RESPECT ALL. BEFRIEND FEW. LOVE ONE. HATE NONE.
MOTHER PROTECT US, FATHER EMBOLDEN US.
