Alley Patron: Criticizing is easy

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Criticizing is easy

Mornin',

So before these storm clouds arrived with cooler temperatures, the world, my memories, the present, the future played calumny with angst. Derision against decision quagmired this solo voice of contra-experience with majority rules. Outnumbered, alone with zero support again, getting stymied by private perfidy.

Why was I culled? How long must I contend with small minds? Who are these well organized angry people? Thinking Causality, How did they become them?

These 4 walls with a keyboard do give sanctuary with insight but sooner more than later interaction with them will occur, and it is rarely good. It is mostly predatory on their end and I am not prey, never have been, never will be. So the contension continues. Their cries of victim are well cloaked lies of the victimizer. Solace is found in awareness of their presence but is challenged by the majority support for their masquerade by the deceived.

Herein is where Truth recharges:

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

You are reading from the book Touchstones

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it takes some eyesight to see what will put it right again.

—Will Rogers

We come to this day with a choice of whether to be for something or against it. Shall we put energy into what we seek and admire or shall we give our energy to opposition and resistance of what we dislike? If someone asks a favor, we have a choice to resent and resist the intrusion or to engage with the person and see where it might lead. If a project we are working on is frustrating, we can wallow in criticizing it or try to get a clearer picture of what will work and what we want.

Criticizing may be a helpful first stage in learning, but it is seductive because it holds little risk and we feel safe doing it. In that comfort we forget to go forward to create what we really want. Our negative energy, when we are seduced by it, creates negative results. When we look back upon today, we will admire those choices that risked creating something positive.

Today, I will not give my energy to denouncing but to creating what I believe is worthwhile.

From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©1986, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.