I want to stay on the subject of "living it right." After writing my first blog and thinking about what I actually wrote, I realized that my perception was skewed. My conclusion that I was indeed "living it right" (a conclusion which, by the way, is subject to change with every decision that is made) is one that may not be seen that way by someone who holds different values than I hold.
Unfortunately for us, "living it right" is open to interpretation. No opinion of what is right is definitive or universal enough to apply to every individual. And considering "righteousness" as anything other than a matter of opinion is missing the mark. We are all faced with the burden of determining what lies within our own sense of "right," and we must all use what values, morals, and experiences we pick up during our lives to help mold our understanding of what it means to be right. My views that drinking and smoking are bad, rawk music is awesome, and fresh-from-the-oven homemade pizza is what I think Heaven tastes like are probably very different from someone else's perspective. That is why we must not only seek answers to the question of "Am I living it right?" but we must continually be in search of answers to a greater question: "What is right?"
I have never been one to shove my lifestyle down someone's throat, and it's certainly not something I will condone or partake in with this blog. But one thing that I think that should be stressed is that everyone needs a lifestyle. Our morals and values, and the raw life experiences that we carry with us each day, must serve to create a sense of who we are as individuals. Without that support, our actions aren't justified, and we become bland and insignificant.
Every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. If your actions aren't backed by a strong sense of who you are, you can't expect them to reverberate because they won't have a foundation. Find that foundation. Dream. Try. And expect to fall down. But after you do, you have to get back up.
Because that's the only way we can know if what we did was right.
just a side note, we cant expect to get back up on our own because it would be pointless. we have to have that rock for support and understanding for our own does us no good.
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