Re: Blemish
On November 14th, I posted an entry titled Blemish. This entry is in response to badoingdoing's comment to that entry.
While the tvte may not be the best thing for me, it is indeed Judgment on my Character and Abilities in the larger scheme of my Life that I Failed at the task. I had all the Opportunities and mental Faculties to earn my degree from the ( Read more... )
Indeed! I do not limit the definition of Character to the level of Hard Work and Discipline. It is but one aspect of Character. You pointed to this when you wrote of various "points." (This begs the question: What are the other aspects of Character? I must endeavor to discover them and enumerate them within my own mind, rather than depend on intuition to dictate to me what they are.)
I do agree with your assessment that caring for others is an asset to Character. But I must disagree with your perception of this quality in me. Consider this: though I may be willing to stay up all night for someone who needs someone, I am just as apt to fail to complete an assignment as part of a group (of friends, not just random classmates) as I am an individual assignment. So what keeps me up all night to be a friend to someone but cannot compel me to affirm that friendship with hard work? Perhaps the nature of the need, but I can also point to an aspect of my Character. I have said that I receive more out of helping and being a friend than I give. I claim this again. One can say that, as per the friendship aspect, with the project, it requires that I give more than I receive. So, even my staying up all night is selfish.
You will likely say that I am being hard on my self. But do not deny that what I have said in this case has merit. There is no neutrality: I can be a better or worse person today than yesterday, but I cannot stay the same today as yesterday. If I do not discover the faults, I cannot prevent them from reoccurring. If I commit the same faults for ignorance, then I add ignorance to my faults. To be sure, today is not guaranteed to make me better than yesterday. But I can try. And as long as I can find fault in me, I will. So I will find fault until the end of my life. And if I ever stop, then I fall into the worst of all sins: pride.
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