Just because something feels right doesn't make it right, right?
Right?
Right.
But being human, this isn't an easy concept to accept, not to mention fully understand. If it's true that everyone's ultimate goal in life one way or another is to reach eudaimonia, as suggested by both Plato/Socrates and Aristotle, then why do so many means to this end feel right when they're not?!
It's cruel, of course. Life is cruel.
But life is also great - "don't throw the baby out with the bath water", right?
If someone makes you super happy and things are truly working, you get along amazingly, but you don't have that one veeeeery important thing in common (your faith), then the relationship shouldn't start since it ultimately won't work. So why bother trying? All it'll do is mess up a friendship that you already have.
Oh yeah, look how smart I am! Yay for me!!
Hey head, would you mind relaying this message to my heart now?
Thanks.
Right?
Right.
But being human, this isn't an easy concept to accept, not to mention fully understand. If it's true that everyone's ultimate goal in life one way or another is to reach eudaimonia, as suggested by both Plato/Socrates and Aristotle, then why do so many means to this end feel right when they're not?!
It's cruel, of course. Life is cruel.
But life is also great - "don't throw the baby out with the bath water", right?
If someone makes you super happy and things are truly working, you get along amazingly, but you don't have that one veeeeery important thing in common (your faith), then the relationship shouldn't start since it ultimately won't work. So why bother trying? All it'll do is mess up a friendship that you already have.
Oh yeah, look how smart I am! Yay for me!!
Hey head, would you mind relaying this message to my heart now?
Thanks.
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