Look In The Mirror

I've been through about three of four revisions of this post. I took the blog rating off of this site because in the first iterations, it contained language that could well have lost me my "G" rating.

That's changed.

Lately I've been reading material written by Masons that hasn't struck me as the sort of thing that men who have made a commitment to better themselves ever should have let leave their keyboards. These several messages definitely "got my Irish up" and I proceeded to write a scathing post about it.

Then I got up and walked around the house for a bit until I found myself in front of a mirror. Then I realized that to challenge what I despised, I had become what I had despised. That, my friends, is no way to change things.

There is a certain seduction in what we believe to be "righteous anger". We allow our indignation to take control and because we believe we are right, we give free reign to those behaviors in ourselves that we were outraged about in others.

In short, instead of becoming part of the solution, you become part of the problem. When we are so convinced that we are right, that the other person has somehow trespassed upon what we conceive as proper, we "take the bait". In doing so, we lose any moral high ground we may have had.

If you want to know where the problem starts, look in the mirror. If you want to know where the solution lies, look in that same place. After all, what come you here to do?

Stay tuned, or not, it's up to you.