More on life isn’t always so simple
If you go back to the original Life Isn’t Always So Simple, you will see some fabulous responses from the two Heavenreaders who have responded so far at the moment I’m writing this, and I am writing this blog entry ahead of time. I just can’t let this topic go. The topic seems to be: Under certain circumstances, what is the right thing to do? Is it right for the circumstances to make a difference in what is the right thing to do. Is it always who we are regardless of circumstances. So here I go again!
On the surface, if I have two eggs, and you have none, of course, I would give you one. That’s the theory anyway.
Yet under the circumstance of being in a contest, I’m not so sure. I’m not sure at all.
Chuck was faced with a dramatically serious situation. Kill or be killed — which do we choose at the moment we’re faced with having to make a choice. What we think in theory and what we do may well be two different things. Fortunately, Chuck didn’t have to make the choice. Chuck, can we know with absolutely certainty which choice you would have made since it turned out that you were not put to the actual test?
The question is not just what would we do, but what is the right thing to do? What is really the right thing to do? Can the answer be the same under all circumstances?
One, please forgive me that I can’t seem to let this topic go! This comment is what got me going again!
Perhaps the assistant suggested souffle because she really believed in souffle. Could it be that the tempura flopped due to something other than a missing egg?
It’s also possible that the souffle could have come out wonderfully, and Carla would have won! Most likely the assistant was sincere and well-intentioned, even though I found her bothersome. Even had Carla won, was the assistant right to butt in, and did it make sense, win or lose, for Carla to go by the assistant’s train of thought? How Carla rues now that she hadn’t followed her own drummer. Maybe the assistant rues now too.
Certainly, there are times when our suggestions are best kept to ourselves (not that I personally am any good at that.)
If Carla were in the Olympics and was just ready to pole-vault and possibly win the Gold Medal, what kind of a time is that for someone to start giving her suggestions? There is such a thing as timing and circumstance — and minding one’s own business! It’s not like Carla was jumping out of an airplane without her parachute!
I guess I am saying that in the relative world, everything is relative.
Beloved Heaven Admin, if we were playing Monopoly, you and I, there are rules to the game. If you land on my property, as I remember, you take my property and vice versa. That’s the game.
Outside of Monopoly, you wouldn’t. I know you wouldn’t.
While we were playing Monopoly, it wouldn’t mean that you aren’t a loving person. It would mean we were playing a game.
The structure of Top Chef is a game.
Beloved One, of course, your last paragraph stands. It is perfect.
Destiny is not singular. In a field of infinite possibilities there is no shortage of choices. Mis-identification of who is affected by the choice can be a bummer though.
Your words may reduce all my great arguments above to ashes!
no that doesn’t seem like a non-answer, I think it’s an enlightened answer; I too feel much better when I flow, than be stuck with any must-do or must-be, or anything that must be applied to all circumstances, I forget what my rules are supposed to be; I just try to work from the heart I guess.
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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