tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554769525626933114.post5554079655367930338..comments2023-05-07T17:06:05.116+08:00Comments on Rhea-lize!: -Rhealeth Ramoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15771230796559321802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554769525626933114.post-71965520736230868942007-10-01T01:28:00.000+08:002007-10-01T01:28:00.000+08:00And my first thought after reading this post was, ...And my first thought after reading this post was, "ah, she went through it EARLY, it seems..."<BR/><BR/>Let's see now, Lil Sis, how does one <I>properly</I> explain this...?<BR/><BR/>To consider one's personal wants, needs and desires is but natural; as a psych major, I'm sure you know and appreciate it more than I do.<BR/><BR/>Everything changes when a person decides to... transcend what the Greeks called, "the Private Sphere" in favor of the "Public." <BR/><BR/>Remember the etymology of the word politics: it comes from the word "polis", or "city". Politics, far from being something dirty, actually pertains to one's actions - or Actions, as Hannah Arendt called it - in the context of the Public Sphere, done for things BEYOND one's personal concerns and for the benefit of the community.<BR/><BR/>BUT, at the end of it all, Man is still an Embodied Spirit. There is a constant struggle between the Body and the Spirit, or so St. Paul tells us. But this is part of being Human. It would be natural for you to want to find time for yourself; none of us, even perhaps me, were born like Plato's Guardians, at the outset "made" for a life in the Public Sphere. What we did was make a CHOICE to be concerned about our communities, to try and make a difference in the world.<BR/><BR/>Don't be too hard on yourself, my Little Sister. All of those who chose to heed the Call at one time or another felt the way you do, did the same "turning away" that you made. Because we're human. Because we, too, have things we want and desire, "simple" as they may be as compared to the Great Concerns we have chosen to take on. And all we've given up in service to God, His People and the Republic is much more felt when... stresses come along, like what's happening to GK and CFC right now, like what happened to us in the LP.<BR/><BR/>When you read the lives of the Great in humanity's history, you will see that perhaps not one was the vision of the Platonic Guardian, all concern over the Public and nary a value for the Private. They had their doubts, their fears, their wants. "The Dark Night of the Soul," so our Catholic theology calls it. <BR/><BR/>The siren song to be one of the Sheep, rather than be a Wolfhound guarding the Sheep, is always strong. Always. We guard the Sheep, we bleed for the Sheep. And at the end of the day its the Sheep that gets the best food, that have such easy, contented lives inside the pen, or out in the pasture, caring and knowing little for and of those moments when only our fangs, claws and courage were all that stood between them and becoming lunch for the Wolves.<BR/><BR/>But what did you decide in the end? That's all that matters, yes? ^_^<BR/><BR/>And would God - at least the kind, caring God we've been taught is the one we worship and love - blame you for a moment of weakness? I don't think so. He knows, after all, what it means to toil for the betterment of the community, what it costs, what gets asked.<BR/><BR/>Well, for all its worth... I'm glad there's still young people who think and (best of all) feel the way you do.<BR/><BR/>Maybe it really isn't such a hopeless cause after all...Azure Phoenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231261727774481083noreply@blogger.com