Reason, Responsibility, and the beauty of recognising our shortcomings.

It is difficult to face your weakness and your problems and to admit your faults because this makes you feel vulnerable and insufficient and sometimes, ashamed. So we tend not to go down this road of objective self evaluation. Because it simply hurts.

However if we, in sincere pursuit of truth and excellence, end up choosing to face the worst of us in hope to lift it up to a higher place, it first of all humbles us. We are put in a position to finally accept our faults and be willing to learn. Before this point we were either deluded with a haughty sense of self and or have deliberately used all kinds of distractions to remain ignorant of our faults as best as we can.

In this vulnerable state of being quite well aware and admitting of your weakness and failures if equipped with sound reasoning and truth about the nature of human life, there will be a certain sense of hope that will rise within you. This hope declares that we are beings capable of learning and solving problems and though we will never reach perfection on our own account, we are well equipped and able to improve, advance and strengthen. To become real men and women.

This realisation which dawns upon us soon after the humbling experience of coming face to face in all honesty with your weaknesses, often forced upon us by unexpected hardship, gives us a sense of hope that it is possible that we become a better person.

It somehow makes you less afraid to make attempts at bettering yourself by making lots of mistakes initially because you hope in who you could be rather than who you are right this moment and with a bit of faith, who you will be. It is reason and the laws of nature coupled with faith that drives us. Reason means we need to think about what we need to do that is logical in order to improve. We know too well about the efforts that were wasted because they were aimed in the wrong direction. Understanding Laws of nature means we know we will ‘reap what we sow’. It is knowing that we will not suddenly become a super fit person without working out at the gym a considerable amount and controlling diet or that we will not suddenly become better at something unless we put strenuous effort into that which we are trying to do. It is to know that our actions and decisions are not seperate from their consequences so we must choose to act in a way that will reasonably lead us to the goals we’ve set. And lastly, faith means that we will not give up, knowing somewhere down the road we will get there.

Truth is liberating, exhilarating and makes me tremble with joy and fear. The fact that I am accountable and responsible for what I do can be terrifying but think again, it can also be very empowering if you make the right decisions and act accordingly. What I’m trying to say is that our thoughts and actions do matter and makes a difference.

It makes us feel empowered and humbled at the same time. Right now you might have just begun to realise your faults, where you lack, where you’ve gone wrong, but this is a great start. Don’t ignore it, don’t run from it, acknowledge it, feel it, admit that you have some responsibility over those things. It doesn’t feel good, but it surely is a good place to be. You can’t step up when you don’t know that there are many stairs yet to climb.
So let’s go on, let’s keep going, let’s not give up. Some days will be hard, some days we will be struck down, but let’s make sure we get back up and try again with sound reasoning, genuine and painstaking effort, and of course with a bit of faith.