I have had many people in my life that have tried to be a bully but I have learnt to be strong and the things that have been most edifying have been the great men and women of history I have read about and who have passed on their wisdom to each sucessive generation. I think, when you stand for what is right, when you have integrity, principles and moral imperatives, these standards are universal ideals. If someone is trying to put me down, bully me, belittle me or make me doubt myself,I think, what I say to them, what I stand for in standing up to them, goes beyond me to an objective, normative, abstract standard of morality and righteousness. People try to break you down but when you are on the side of the 'right' and the 'good' and you can check yourself in your own conscience, their primitive, antidiluvian instincts for domination and for subjugating others through their antisocial ways seems so little, so small, petty, pathetic when confronted with something so much bigger than them, so much bigger than me as to be a whole set of deontological principles in the universe..I feel like I have this protection from really nasty people because I am a little fragment or conduit of this universal imperative of 'goodness' and it transcends worldly politics. It is a strength that can never be torn down and it is a real strength of spirit, character not a phony version that the world posits. I feel like this is what Mahatma Gandhi must have thought with his pacifism..
Sorry if I sound a bit pretentious but does anyone understand? It is the only way I could articulate it.
Sorry if I sound a bit pretentious but does anyone understand? It is the only way I could articulate it.