Too little and there will be naught to learn,
yet too much and the ordeal will only burn.
Still we must dance on this edge of a blade,
and arise again whenever we have strayed.
“Just enough” means exactly what we say:
do what is right, in the most balanced way.
Should we strive to do things right,
or what is right as well as we might?
All the better if we can unite the two,
still, how often is that actually true?
Do we choose a fast journey to fame,
or a road with truth as our highest aim?
One path is certainly easier to master,
yet is not wrong done right a disaster?
No excuse will do at the end of the day;
our conscience will still have its say.
By the deeds unworthy of our souls,
do we dig shame’s engulfing holes.
Still, we must let our integrity show;
do we fall to despair or dare to grow?
Forgiveness may or may not be earned;
redemption is within the lesson learned.
Through this pain we recall our vow:
to never again such betrayal allow.
May we bear this remembrance well;
the choice between life and living hell.
Many are the unformed paths that lay ahead;
Raw potential shaped by the way we thread.
The fearful routes offer the promise of dimished resistance,
At the price of an even less meaningful existence.
The roads less travelled call to the brave at heart;
A journey where peril and growth are never far apart.
Life deeply yearns for our wilful participation,
Awaiting our choices with great anticipation.
Spare me not the truth by fearing to offend;
this is my request to you, beloved friend.
By the masquerades and shrouded lies,
the bond of kinship slowly withers and dies.
If something feels amiss, seek out why;
save the hearts from another broken goodbye.
“The truth is what redeems the world from hell” Jordan Peterson speaks about the potential influence of an individual and power of truth. There is a price to pay for both speaking up and for remaining silent, so why not choose that which we know to be right?
Principles, from Latin: principia – that which comes first, is most important, is most necessary, chief, leading, foundation. The word clearly refers to that which is of prime importance and must come before anything else, however difficult it may be at times.
I feel that Martin Luther King Jr. summed up the concept best:
“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
Expediency ask the question, is it politic?
Vanity asks the question, is it popular?
But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
An amazingly deep series of twelve lectures by Jordan B. Peterson, that is about, in essence, the meaning of life and the responsibility placed on each individual to make life meaningful.
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