UNSTIRRED POTS
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Do your words always support your actions?
Do your actions always support your words?
From our words to actions, an easy concept to understand. The reverse, choosing words to describe our actions, is trickier for philosophers and psychologists and probably more challenging for the devout and their clergy.
There is a divide inside, where ethics and guilt reside, where differences in us show up inside us, within us, and around us.
Revealing on the outside is another matter – tricky in posture, trickier still in consequences of where it takes us down a thought path, and more complex if we try playing the mental 3-dimension chess game of consequences, of what others might say or do, anticipating how they might react. We’ll surely be incorrect (could be good or bad), but we’ll never know if we keep it all inside us, brewing and stewing …
When we stir a pot, we often get the results we want – but it always comes in a different form than we expect. Disturbing someone’s comfort zone can produce serious and valuable discussion, but it can easily be disruptive to them and our relationship with them.
Better to stir carefully with a spoon than to poke with a stick …