“What if it’s Been
All Wrong?”
As the story goes of a particular judge in the end of the
nineteenth century… ‘…He hated his wife
and he hated his life… And there he lay on his deathbed and with his last
breathes he said, “What if it’s been all wrong?”
Recently, I explained to my husband when a person pursues on
pushing their agenda, sometimes they do it innocently. Sometimes they do it
because they are disappointed in life and they are angry. Usually, I see this as
people get older, nearing retirement age. Some become more forceful and forward
on their beliefs. Quite often the more
educated and the more weight that they’ve held in society, is when that occurs.
Career areas, such as having been in law, education, finance or in medicine
they are apt to think they know more than most. As well, if they are a bit
older than the other person they are speaking with. Those people in their expertise, appear to
transpose their expertise in one field and think they know more in another. One
thing I know is, they most likely don’t.
As well, when they push their agenda so hard, not
recognizing it is draining to others. As well it maybe and most likely is unnecessary,
and unkind to the people they are aiming it at.
Especially, if the person is ill, or they are taking care of the ill,
doing that act of being pushy is a sin. In the Old Testament these sins are
explained. One can be an innocent
mistake of not understanding what you are doing to the ill or dying patient, caregiver
spouse, family, friend, etc… That in the Old Testament can be forgiven.
However, there are those in our society who know what they are doing when they
are being so forceful, that is a sin.
And that sin will be reckoned with. How? I have no clue. It’s up to
Karma, God, Allah, Yahweh, Krishna, etc…
But I know there will be retribution and a reckoning to that soul who
sinned in that fashion, against others.
This thought today brings me to Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella, “The
Death of Ivan Ilych”. I find in the end of many people’s lives, of those who
are discontented. Those so discontented
with retiring, perhaps knowing a life of grandstands or speeches, what have
you. Well, it’s over for them. They are
no longer the ‘go to gal or guy.’ So, instead of reveling in having worked
a great career. Or perhaps, making it to
the finish line with their career, business, or parenting. They resent it. That
resentment, is not Faith-based. That
resentment is ego-based (ego=Edging God Out). When ego is applied to everything
we are, everything we do, it becomes an anchor.
It drags us through the abyss of loneliness. It does not reward us. Yet, it hinders humanity. It hinders new
ideas, growth of the soul and other souls.
And that is a sin against humanity.
To me, it is equal to murder. ---Jody-Lynn Reicher
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