Wow...I was just looking over my blogs, and...my blogs are long! I don't intend for this one to be, though. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about relationships and people and their roles-- The importance that we place on people and their value in our lives. I've lived in at least 3 different cultures in polar opposite regions of the world, and people are either not valued enough and the individual is the most important thing or they can be valued too much and we are foolish enough to rest all of our fullfilment and happiness on the shoulders of another human being. I have certainly been guilty of both, but I also think that I have more of a healthy view of people and their roles and relationships than the person who has only experienced their culture and way of thinking. How do I live in the American culture and value relationships differently than Americans? Maybe I wouldn't feel the tension, but I look American and talk American, and therefore I'm expected to BE American...but I'm not and can't fully be no matter how hard I try. I know why my blogs are so long...I write about one topic, like relationships, and then I feel the need to expound and give details about my thoughts because the issue is linked to so many others, and there are contributing factors that I feel I must survey to get a balanced picture of what is...of reality. In case you were wondering as I sometimes have, about the purpose of this blog, it is the quest of reality and what really is--not what is perceived or traditionally assumed, but what really is...what really is life? Who really am I? And what does it matter?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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Wow...I was just looking over my blogs, and...my blogs are long! I don't intend for this one to be, though. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about relationships and people and their roles-- The importance that we place on people and their value in our lives. I've lived in at least 3 different cultures in polar opposite regions of the world, and people are either not valued enough and the individual is the most important thing or they can be valued too much and we are foolish enough to rest all of our fullfilment and happiness on the shoulders of another human being. I have certainly been guilty of both, but I also think that I have more of a healthy view of people and their roles and relationships than the person who has only experienced their culture and way of thinking. How do I live in the American culture and value relationships differently than Americans? Maybe I wouldn't feel the tension, but I look American and talk American, and therefore I'm expected to BE American...but I'm not and can't fully be no matter how hard I try. I know why my blogs are so long...I write about one topic, like relationships, and then I feel the need to expound and give details about my thoughts because the issue is linked to so many others, and there are contributing factors that I feel I must survey to get a balanced picture of what is...of reality. In case you were wondering as I sometimes have, about the purpose of this blog, it is the quest of reality and what really is--not what is perceived or traditionally assumed, but what really is...what really is life? Who really am I? And what does it matter?
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