Your opinions, friend, sometimes seem paradoxical. You feel deeply for those who suffer, as if all such are victims. At the same time, you're impatient, even angry, with those who fail to capitalize on opportunities, don't upgrade, don't invest, don't do something with profits or returns.
But those who suffer may have failed to make use of opportunities, and those who don't display your energy in enterprise may simply be satisfied.
There's something deeper than logic here. These are primary pre-logical perceptions and motives. Logical deductions from commonly self-evident premises may lead to rational and useful conclusions but they lack the 'fire in the eyes', as a student put it, that gets us to begin things, overcome things, endure things. Of course, logic is a necessary disciplinarian for all our convictions, but sometimes, not in yours, it provides the figleaf of justification for opinions already settled.
I wouldn't have you otherwise. Who would you be without your very-definite views? Indeed, I agree with much of what you say. But do opinions less trenchant get your attention? The perceptions and motives of others are sometimes less sharp-edged and primary colored, sometimes have to, in fact, be discovered, teased out of the abundance of thoughts and experiences, but no less real for all that.
You care a lot about people; you do listen, if with growing impatience, to rambling expositions of exploration. And you've found yourself at times baffled by how to manage what your ur-convictions have led you into. It's complicated sometimes being as generous as you are.
Who am I to speak, whose vaguenesses have produced so little?
But those who suffer may have failed to make use of opportunities, and those who don't display your energy in enterprise may simply be satisfied.
There's something deeper than logic here. These are primary pre-logical perceptions and motives. Logical deductions from commonly self-evident premises may lead to rational and useful conclusions but they lack the 'fire in the eyes', as a student put it, that gets us to begin things, overcome things, endure things. Of course, logic is a necessary disciplinarian for all our convictions, but sometimes, not in yours, it provides the figleaf of justification for opinions already settled.
I wouldn't have you otherwise. Who would you be without your very-definite views? Indeed, I agree with much of what you say. But do opinions less trenchant get your attention? The perceptions and motives of others are sometimes less sharp-edged and primary colored, sometimes have to, in fact, be discovered, teased out of the abundance of thoughts and experiences, but no less real for all that.
You care a lot about people; you do listen, if with growing impatience, to rambling expositions of exploration. And you've found yourself at times baffled by how to manage what your ur-convictions have led you into. It's complicated sometimes being as generous as you are.
Who am I to speak, whose vaguenesses have produced so little?
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