A series of thoughts part 4: Right or Easy
Do you often find yourself doing what's right most of the time, or what's easy? Most of time we take the easy route, we're all guilty of it. Small things, you might not even think about. The difference between stopping to help someone pick up some groceries they dropped, or to hold a door open for someone. Now, this is completely just my opinion on the topic. Right? What's right? It's completely an opinion. But I think it would be good to hold doors to help people, to help people who you don't even know when you see that they need help.
But of course, it could be a smaller thing, that doesn't involve anyone else. Putting things back into their place? Putting off doing something until later? Dropping off a movie you borrowed from your friend? Do you finish doing your chores before you go to bed, or do you do it tomorrow? You can always do it later. Eh, whatever. Right? Apathy is far easier than actively putting forth effort.
Apathy... people are becoming more apathetic to what's going on around them. More so than before. I can't tell you for sure why though, there could be a number of factors or reasons. How many people have protested the War in Iraq in the United States? If a coworker is being mistreated, do you stand up for them or do you just let it play out? Don't want to get involved? We're all guilty of sitting back and doing nothing. I know I'm guilty of it. But I try to do the right thing whenever I can. The right thing? My bad. I meant, I try to do what I think is right. I try to help those who need help, those who cannot help themself. I don't do it all the time, because sometimes, I fall victim to Apathy too, everyone does.
Don't let it take hold of you, not for long. The more often you do nothing, the easier it is to do nothing, and the more often you will do nothing. Idle hands are the devil's playground, as they say, right?
posted by Anifanatic @ 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
I don't agree.
You can march up and protest all you want, but do you actually think that your government will listen to you? Please!
We can protest the genocide in Darfur, the lie which is the USA's ticket into controlling Iraq, etc. But that won't stop it from happening. The only way we can fix it is to get better people at the top. Democracy is an illusion. It makes us think that we have a say in what happens, but after the voting process is over, our small authority is gone.
I don't always hold doors...mostly I do, but sometimes my mind is somewhere else. But it doesn't make me a bad person. Or a lazy person.
Sometimes standing up for someone isn't the right thing to do. You also have to let people stand up for themselves. We can't always be rescued. We need to take care of ourselves, only them will we be able to help others. How can you expect to help someone if you can't even help yourself?
We have to learn to open our own doors, carry our own bags, fight our own fights.
Being lazy can also be always letting people stand up for us, fight our fights, open our doors.
Oh, I didn't say we have to protest or anything, I just meant that sometimes we WANT to protest or to do something about it, but we're lazy, or we just put it off.
I do agree that our government is complete BS too, but I'm really talking about those people who just 'go with the flow' and believe everything is fine because it's easier than admitting that the whole situation is fucked up.
As for the holding doors and stuff, I meant it as a courtesy, yes, but also meant to hold doors for people who have their hands full or something. I'm not saying that if you forget to hold hold a door open, you're doing the wrong thing, but just putting things off or not caring would be the wrong thing.
When it's easier to not care about what's right, and do the easy thing. I'm not asking for people to pick up arms and riot in the street, but at least those who did protest back in the day were passionate about what they believed in to do something. Mostly, even if you DO think the War in Iraq is BS, for example, most people can admit to it but won't do anything to it.
It's just easier to pass the buck, or put it off. I'm not telling you to go fight other people's battles, but even when fighting your own fights, people will often get lazy or care a little less becasue it takes effort.
The 2nd paragraph was mostly about doing things for yourself, and the 3rd dealt more with interaction with other people.
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