Friday, February 17, 2006
Personal Responsibility
Forming our groups and our guidelines, we sometimes forget to reach out and remind ourselves and others that there are people behind the text, that there are aspirations, desires, and functioning emotions. At times, we can store away a closely knit group of individuals, proceed to make a cause, work on the cause, then forget the vision. The importance of reflection is to revitalize that vision, to return the focus of the individuals or groups to the vision, if only for a moment, and to encourage the establishments that produced that vision initially.
Considering that we don't happen to bond with more than one or two people at one time in our lives, at a personal and interpersonal level, it is safe to assume that the outer periphery of friends should be twice as many, or more. Why? Because the small circle of interrelationships with one or two people is usually not enough. There is not enough data, information, interpretation, and individual result. Instead, we confine the circle to a level of communication that is directed in only one or two directions; perhaps, we have the relationship of mother to daughter, and lover to loved -two relationships in our lives- but we forge less relationships in the world of spiritual leader to follower, colleage to colleague, scholar to scholar...artist to?
Considering that we don't happen to bond with more than one or two people at one time in our lives, at a personal and interpersonal level, it is safe to assume that the outer periphery of friends should be twice as many, or more. Why? Because the small circle of interrelationships with one or two people is usually not enough. There is not enough data, information, interpretation, and individual result. Instead, we confine the circle to a level of communication that is directed in only one or two directions; perhaps, we have the relationship of mother to daughter, and lover to loved -two relationships in our lives- but we forge less relationships in the world of spiritual leader to follower, colleage to colleague, scholar to scholar...artist to?
