Monday, May 24, 2010

Price we all pay for our individualism and the impossibility of truly understanding another person

"Your worship saved the day."

"Don't you have to call upon the Name of Jesus? Then you must have delivered them by walking in His presence!"

Sometimes it is hard to comprehend. But I am just an ordinary person.

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What an interesting day I had.
Talked to 3 different personalities and I still cannot rationalize.

Personality #1
It is stated about availability more. The choice lies in the availability which incurs dependability. Even though the capacity is really a compromise.

Personality #2
Wouldn't mind giving up a dream. There was a beautiful setting. But the choice to run around to increase worth at the price of personal growth. Worth is no longer measured alongside growth.

Personality #3
It is about a weathered personality. What is really on the inside is a desire for a security. But instead, the eyes lead the heart for a weathered personality. Being weathered incurs interest. Even though it should have been the heart lead the eyes.

Maybe I was right.
I wish there was someone who could tell me honestly.
Because more and more.
I think people don't really know what they are searching for.

"The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart." This phrase was built from
'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) - a novel by Graham Greene.

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As Graham Greene himself saw it, The Heart of the Matter deals with the issue of pride. He illustrates this theme by describing Scobie, the main character of the book, as "a weak man with good intentions doomed by pride". He further says in the preface, "I had meant the story of Scobie to enlarge a theme ... the disastrous effect on human beings of pity as distinct from compassion. I had written: 'Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Love isn't safe when pity's prowling around.' The character of Scobie was intended to show that pity can be the expression of an almost monstrous pride."

Each character in the novel fails in their ultimate goals by the end of the book. Scobie's ultimate sacrifice, suicide, fails to bring the expected happiness he imagines it will to his wife.

The Heart of the Matter is not just about failure, but about the price we all pay for our individualism and the impossibility of truly understanding another person. Each of the characters in the novel operates at tangential purposes which they often think are clear to others, or think are hidden from others, but are in fact not.

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” - Richard Bard

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Please. Don't let me go.

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