June 24, 2014
Morality Play
Where do your morals come from - your family? Your faith? Your philosophical worldview? How do you deal with thoise who don't share them, or derive them from a different source?
I would imagine that as a child I got my 'starter' set of morals from my parents. However, not really remembering icing with my dad, I couldn't really tell you what his morals were. I know he liked to argue, some would say I am the same way, so I guess I got that moral from him. Can you call that a moral? More of a quality maybe?
Some of the things that I was going to site as morals learned from my mother are also qualities...
Some of the things that I can point to as morals are things I learned because of my mother, but more so in reaction to how she did, and I did opposite. Being late all the time, makes me need to be early. Being so disorganized makes me need to be organized. Always having to wait places for this reason and that, makes me need to have something to keep myself entertained all the time, and ok with waiting somewhere for 'whatever'
Today, the morals that I have come from the outside world. Again, mostly reactionary. In see how people do, and I don't like it, I don't do if. Some are adopted morals, but most are from "I don't like the way that made me, or others feel, I won't be doing that.
As for my kids, I try to teach them things that I think will help them the most on life.
Thanks for reading
Misty
)O(
Blessed Be
Where do your morals come from - your family? Your faith? Your philosophical worldview? How do you deal with thoise who don't share them, or derive them from a different source?
I would imagine that as a child I got my 'starter' set of morals from my parents. However, not really remembering icing with my dad, I couldn't really tell you what his morals were. I know he liked to argue, some would say I am the same way, so I guess I got that moral from him. Can you call that a moral? More of a quality maybe?
Some of the things that I was going to site as morals learned from my mother are also qualities...
Some of the things that I can point to as morals are things I learned because of my mother, but more so in reaction to how she did, and I did opposite. Being late all the time, makes me need to be early. Being so disorganized makes me need to be organized. Always having to wait places for this reason and that, makes me need to have something to keep myself entertained all the time, and ok with waiting somewhere for 'whatever'
Today, the morals that I have come from the outside world. Again, mostly reactionary. In see how people do, and I don't like it, I don't do if. Some are adopted morals, but most are from "I don't like the way that made me, or others feel, I won't be doing that.
As for my kids, I try to teach them things that I think will help them the most on life.
Thanks for reading
Misty
)O(
Blessed Be
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