Proud Opinions
Daily Meditation 98–5/31/2022
How incredibly arrogant do you need to be to believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that your views are superior to someone else’s?
How foolish are you to think any one person, leader, politician or commander knows what’s best for everyone?
These two combined beliefs are two of man’s greatest modern pitfalls.
We dig in our heels on things like politics — for many, to the point we destroy our own families — but also things like education, how to drive, investing, and even things all the way down to if the new Star Wars trilogy was good or bad!
It is one thing to hold an opinion — it’s good, even, to have opinions! Even better to stand by them.
However, it is a woeful thing to intentionally believe only your opinion is correct and to stick your fingers in your ears, shouting “LA LA LA LA!” when someone else shares their opinions.
Your opinions are wrong.
Their opinions are wrong.
Your opinions are right.
Their opinions are right…
Simultaneously.
You, nor anyone else — especially politicians — know what is best for the world or everyone else.
Know that horrible feeling you have when you’re demanded something disagreeable to you? Well, the opposite can be true for others, as well.
All we can do as Eudaimonics is to focus on ourselves. To live better today than we did yesterday.
To be financially prudent.
To eat well and move more.
To be spiritually of sound mind, whatever that looks like for you.
To nourish good relationships.
And to pour gratitude over these four vessels, unceasingly!
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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”
