Ultimate Ramblings 1: In Relative Terms

It is said that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. The law of karma says what comes around goes around or the bad you do will come back to haunt you (thoroughly paraphrased). Medically, they say an unripe fruit may contain the necessary acids for digestion. So, an unripe orange may be a better laxative than a ripe one and an unripe mango stands a lesser chance of increasing the frequency of toilet visits while a ripe one might induce such. Also, you cannot know how much strength you have until tested, neither can you know your capacity for pain unless your endure some. Can we say there is an antonym without a word? Therefore, there is no wealth without poverty and no love without hate. Only the state of a “status” describes the alternative.



For instance, beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder. But how can beauty be a relative term if it is a status (which in variably can be altered) and ugliness be a constant. The term was obviously coined by a man who by reason only of choice decided to see “ugly" as something other than it represents and place “beauty” among the mundane things in relative terms. Is the cup full or half empty they say, or what you see is your perspective. All these intelligent alterations of an accepted status quo is an excuse to give or allow everyman what he desires.

My question is this; why don’t we do what we have purposed in our hearts to and let every man bear his scars. Why can’t we allow people see clearly what is before them and face it? I cannot agree that we are boxed into the good, the bad and the ugly but I agree that there is a clear difference between all the descriptive terms. There may be levels of beauty or ugliness as they vary and this is not in reference to the state of our hearts.

Bad things happen to good people because they have decided to bend to “perspective which puts certain things in the category called, “bad”.”What you sow you will reap" yes but then the baby may grow up to be the president. Does that end justify the means? Absolutely not! We "do not throw out the baby with the bath water" even if he poo-ed in it because we can remove the baby and bath it again.

                                          If experiences do not make us stronger then we only
                                   live to tell the stories to someone else to make them stronger.
                                   Either way someone will count their blessings for the bad that
                                                            happens to good people.

The term 'relative' is entombed in the areas of measurement or in comparison and not as it suits our insatiable need for acceptance and endorsement. Faith is to believe and belief is acceptance to see or do things in a certain way. It is not trust; for trust keeps record of performance and a man can only be called trustworthy if he has been entrusted before and stood the test. Faith allows the right perspective, not in relative terms but as it should be. We believe that we can rise above a situation not because it is a molehill but because of faith; the only ingredient for getting our desire. Whether it has happened before to someone else and they crumbled under pressure is not the point, it is whether your will too. It is knowing that the unripe orange will set your teeth on edge but will give relieve to constipation. Find that the unripe mango may stop your stomach from running.

Bad is bad and good is good, an opportunity may present itself but will wait for advantage to be taken of it. Certainly, If you plant corn you will harvest corn and not plums as the fruit takes queue from the seed but the amount of corn and its state of goodness is solely dependent on what you do during its time of germination. Recognising the bad does not mean acceptance, it only shows the direction of the succeeding actions. A stitch in time saves nine but the size of the needle determines how long the stitch will last before another tear. The choice is in how we handle what is tossed at us or what we pick up as it is always one or the other. Only faith sees what is tossed and chooses to catch or not to because faith does not keep record of trust broken. That is why it is called “a leap of faith”. Simply put, it doesn’t have to be the same for all of us. Some babies are saved from the bathwater. I believe that every experience is only defined by our exploitation of it. Wallowing in pity never helped anyone neither did worrying, only action saved the day. Faith is action you must first believe then act in that order. Although, Rome wasn’t built in a day it started with a thought, then an expectation then action.


Build your life; don’t let it build you it might have the wrong composition of cement and sand; the wrong perception of the good and the bad.

There will always be room for a wind-fall but calculated attempts create expected results. If you choose how to handle your situation, self-denial is a no show but have faith in the baby as you pour out the bathwater. And please, give that baby another bath to remove the stink.


P.S
“Finally, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things”. Good is a better meditation no matter how little in “relation to the whole it is never absent.