#admit your faults

[mufti-ismail-menk]

If and when you’re tempted to speak about someone else’s fault, speak of yours first. Often it’s far easier to fix other people’s problems than focusing on your own. Whatever fault you’ve identified in a person, probably goes to show that the fault is also there in yourself.

[mufti-ismail-menk]

We point a finger & correct others often but why is it so hard to correct ourselves? No one's perfect. Admit your faults & correct them.

Mufti Ismail Menk

[kittenenjoints]

You can't be innocent all the time.

[m-c-easton]

Create Nuanced Characters with a Writer's Journal

Create Nuanced Characters with a Writer’s Journal

When I was in my twenties, I wrote loads of crap. I say this with pride, not shame. Hey, I was learning. Still am. The key was that I wrote loads–and that I practiced until each piece became a tiny bit better than the last.

But here was the contributing factor to the crap part: I didn’t understand people. Growing up with a mother who is probably on the spectrum, a father who bullied me like an…

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[derenzis-blog]

You know, in high school, and even freshman year in college, I was a big "color-blind" proponent. They used to do an exercise with us, where we'd have to split the room based on questions asked. In silence. Yes's over here, no's over there kind of thing. Good exercise for divisive topics by the way. Learn a lot about your people. Anyway the question was "Is race real?" I practically ran to the "no" side. At the time, I said in my head "Race is a social construct. To be able to conquer racial tension, we simply have to realize it isn't a factor anymore, and move forward." 

The room was fairly evenly split.

I really felt that was the right answer. I thought I was doing good. I thought everyone on the "race is real" side was living in some fantasy land where DNA was your skin color and Newton's fourth law was "God made minorities" or something. I thought it was tragic how racism had been so thorough, it had even convinced it's victims of it's merits, and that racial tension would just pendulum back and forth forever unless someone stopped it by forgiving and forgetting. Goddamn it hurts to think how many struggling people were on the other side of that line silently thinking "goddamn not only do you not know my culture and my stuggle, you don't even think it's real? What am I imagining it?" Racism isn't answered by "everyone close your eyes." There's too much disgusting racist shit going on to close your eyes. Open your eyes. Race is real.

[goldenlockandkey]

Serious note:

We can all look at a situation and say "oh if that was me I would"... blah blah blah

But on a serious note we really have no idea what we'd do until we're looking at the situation in the face.

Don't worry I'm a victim to it too, I admit.