A Good Man
Nov. 2nd, 2007 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythI know my girlfriend will disagree with this.
I'm not a very good man. I don't think I'm a particularly bad man, I'm mostly neutral, with hopefully some good tendencies. But I don't feel I do enough to actually call myself good. I try to be honorable, truthful and most of the rest of the stuff like the Boy Scout Oath. And I think I manage to usually not be a jerk and not be evil, but that's not enough to make somebody good.
Good has to be active, and actually work to make things better, not just not make things worse. Or even, in the case of all the stuff tied up in living in modern industrial America, make things worse slower. Not being evil's not enough to qualify as good, but it's the first step. Good has to actually make a positive difference
Much of it's my own fault, my besetting vice has to be sloth, I keep saying one of these days I'll get around to not procrastinating any more, but it's not really been happening. I need to get out and get more involved and active, which I've been working on. The root word of activist is active, after all.
I'm not a very good man. I don't think I'm a particularly bad man, I'm mostly neutral, with hopefully some good tendencies. But I don't feel I do enough to actually call myself good. I try to be honorable, truthful and most of the rest of the stuff like the Boy Scout Oath. And I think I manage to usually not be a jerk and not be evil, but that's not enough to make somebody good.
Good has to be active, and actually work to make things better, not just not make things worse. Or even, in the case of all the stuff tied up in living in modern industrial America, make things worse slower. Not being evil's not enough to qualify as good, but it's the first step. Good has to actually make a positive difference
Much of it's my own fault, my besetting vice has to be sloth, I keep saying one of these days I'll get around to not procrastinating any more, but it's not really been happening. I need to get out and get more involved and active, which I've been working on. The root word of activist is active, after all.
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Date: 2007-11-05 05:06 pm (UTC)You pick up trash when we/you go walking. You are always good to children. You take trash from your friends houses and do their recycling for them. You are concerned with the people around you. You give to charities even when you are stretching a thin penny. You take dinner to your friends, or buy dinner for friends when they are broke or not able to. You may consider these little things, but they are not. And you dont do these things because they are expected of you or something in society says that its right. You do them because YOU say they are right and as it should be. That attitude alone makes you a good man. All the little things you do just reflects it to the world.