Comments on: “It’s neither good nor bad, it just is.”

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:58:11 +0000

At times I've lived beholden to my idea of my life, controlled by the world I've created.

At other times I've lived with a little less, um, control, regimen, schedule.

Neither extreme has been good to me.

Learning that it's ok to change my mind, that it's ok to be wrong, and that it's ok to be publicly wrong, has been great to me.

(hard to go wrong with a C.S. Lewis quote, btw...)

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:58:11 +0000

At times I've lived beholden to my idea of my life, controlled by the world I've created.

At other times I've lived with a little less control, regimen, schedule.

Neither extreme has been good to me.

Learning that it's ok to change my mind, that it's ok to be wrong, and that it's ok to be publicly wrong, has been great to me.

(hard to go wrong with a C.S. Lewis quote, btw...)

By: kari

kari — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:55:56 +0000

“Every time you make a choice, you are turning the control part of you into something a little different from what you were before. And taking your life as a whole, with all its innumerable choices, you are slowly turning the control thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish one.” – C. S. Lewis

By: kari

kari — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:55:56 +0000

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By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:18:15 +0000

Absorb different ideas rather than deflect. How we choose to use different ideas is our choice, but if we don't listen we'll never learn.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:18:15 +0000

Absorb different ideas rather than deflect. How we choose to use different ideas is our choice, but if we don't listen we'll never learn.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:16:04 +0000

Change is always a matter of defining priorities and making choices, as hard as they may be. I still believe we own our right to change ourselves; and we define that by our actions. We are what we do, as much as we may like that or not.

I used to be a bit more strident in my positions in life; right was always right and wrong was always wrong as defined by my morality. But I've realized that multiple moralities exist: especially when compared across cultures, traditions and different times in history. I often wonder what conventions we hold as absolute will be either proved wrong or viewed very differently in the future: and if I've learned anything from history is that shifting moralities is not a possibility but a guarantee.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:16:04 +0000

Change is a matter of defining priorities and making choices, as hard as they may be. I still believe we own our right to change ourselves; and we define that by our actions. We are what we do, as much as we may like that or not.

By: Lee Torrens

Lee Torrens — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:37:54 +0000

In relation to my own choices, 'good' and 'bad' are words of morality, just like 'right', 'wrong' and 'should'. Outside that, something either works for me and what I'm committed to, or it doesn't, or somewhere in between.

If "we are who we are by doing what we do" then we can change who we are by changing what we do. Stop going to the office and start surfing and you 'are' a surfer instead of an attorney. When you actually 'get' the possibilities for 'being' different things, life starts to look a lot longer. Who do you want to be today?