recoveringmale

something on the boards inspired me to muse about this.
is it better to live a quiet life knowing that you are living in a way that makes you happy and hurts no one, wherein you are largely (happily) ignored by the world at large, and thereby let the ignorant masses continue to play out their ridiculous ways, as you feel it’s not worth it, or not possible, to change it? Or to try and work with life and get to people and try and reach those who would be most disinclined to accept and receive your views? it is possible to maintain personal ethics without trying to ram your own so-called better way of living down their throats? is it wise to even attempt to do so? the tao suggests leading by example, not preaching or trying to control, and while i agree, these days it’s more likely that no one will pay attention to you unless you appeal to their needs, either through sex or survival or whatever. But if you are to teach only by making yourself an example, without running around preaching it, then the only real change that seems possible is on a small scale: the place you live in, the people around you, and you must trust that others out in the world are doing something similar in their particular places. So it would be that we are content knowing that we’re living as best we can and trying to help others do the same, respectfully. Such a fine line. For those people out there who I so vaguely refer to often fill me with such disgust that I would just as soon leave them to drink and fuck to their heart’s content, oblivious to me and my friends. But that’s being elitist, and i know better than to let that side of myself win out.