a penny from the Old Guy
Oct. 23rd, 2009 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yukieRemember: what they fear is your potential. Small and petty people, insecure people, cannot abide the notion of things shifting from the order they have assigned to the cosmos. When you raised your head - when you began to question, to speak, to disagree - it was as if the very planets had shifted in their orbit. You disrupted their music of the spheres.
There is, however, no need to feel guilt. That any one person should be so arrogant as to believe that they alone have the authority to define what others' lives may and may not be is absurd, but believe it they do. You crack the foundations of their precious temple altars to infinite monotony and the notion that every one person has a set role, a designated niche, that they may not move from.
The universe is no stagnant thing.
They likely do believe what they were told about you by their tragically-arrogant little false gurus. After all, they dealt with these fools and believed them for many years, and old habits (as well you know) are difficult to completely break. Know that this is so. Know also that it is their choice to remain foolish, their choice to keep their eyes closed and declare that since they cannot see you, you cannot be you.
My summoner and vagrant, it is not your responsibility to open their eyes for them. I know well that you would rush into battle against the waves of the Worlds' Sea if you thought it might do some good to a friend. Not a quality I disdain - indeed, it is one to be admired - but everyone who fights must learn this: you need to pick your battles wisely.
It is not your job to rescue people from willful ignorance when all they are interested in doing is stagnating endlessly and lashing out at anyone who dares disturb their universe.
These are people, dear one, who cannot comprehend the fact that you and the sayyadina are possessed of Hearts. They cannot comprehend the fact that near-everyone is possessed of a Heart, and that theirs is not the only real one.
They are unkind because they are innocent, but they are innocent at an age when they should have long since learnt that others' Hearts are. That there is life and understanding, sorrow and joy, love and apathy and abhorrence outside their own experiences. That the world is not always the world as seen through their eyes.
As She said: it is not your responsibility to rescue people from themselves when their perils are of their own devising.
I know it makes your Heart heavy to know this. I know you loathe to lay down your key and turn from a battle, and say: "This is not my fight." You are loath to give up. And - if I were to criticise you for this stubborness I would be an old hypocrite, for I can just as mulish as you can. I only learnt this lesson through endless repetition.
I do not think you foolish or ignorant or pigheaded; if I did I would not choose to abide with you. I think you are someone with great compassion who wants to see people stop getting hurt because they've not yet opened their eyes and are still stumbling in the dark.
But you cannot open their eyes for them.
Lay down your key, girl; pick up a book, sit down on a blanket, take care of you, and let them fight their own battles. They've relied on you for far too long and shown too little compassion and gratitude for the friendship (gratitude for deeds is irrelevant here - what I am talking about is realizing that you are thankful for the friendship and acting accordingly) - qualities which you are by no means lacking. They have yet to understand, I think, that there are Hearts not their own. This is a child's lesson, and one they have been sheltered from, but all lessons will be learnt in time. She in Her wisdom and compassion makes sure of it.
Do for yourself and for those you love, and those who love you. People who cannot understand that other Hearts besides theirs exist are not worth your time. When they awaken, it will get better for them, but they must choose to do so.
Your only sin, dear one, was being in a way that they could not comprehend, because while they knew you as you were then, they cannot understand that you have become who you are now - you've become someone who can deal with Chaos's Scion, honestly, and if they are so angry that you have changed so, then they have utterly no right to assume the mantle of the educator, because a teacher is well aware that one day the student will graduate, and perhaps surpass them.
(People who cannot comprehend this: do not call yourselves teachers. You have no claim to that title, to that role.)
You are not a sinner; you are a vital changeable being just as they are. if they cannot understand that - I shall borrow from Braig and say 'sucks to them'. It is not your problem.
Do what you love. The rest will follow.
Shantih.
-Magister Thaeron of Hallowed Bastion
There is, however, no need to feel guilt. That any one person should be so arrogant as to believe that they alone have the authority to define what others' lives may and may not be is absurd, but believe it they do. You crack the foundations of their precious temple altars to infinite monotony and the notion that every one person has a set role, a designated niche, that they may not move from.
The universe is no stagnant thing.
They likely do believe what they were told about you by their tragically-arrogant little false gurus. After all, they dealt with these fools and believed them for many years, and old habits (as well you know) are difficult to completely break. Know that this is so. Know also that it is their choice to remain foolish, their choice to keep their eyes closed and declare that since they cannot see you, you cannot be you.
My summoner and vagrant, it is not your responsibility to open their eyes for them. I know well that you would rush into battle against the waves of the Worlds' Sea if you thought it might do some good to a friend. Not a quality I disdain - indeed, it is one to be admired - but everyone who fights must learn this: you need to pick your battles wisely.
It is not your job to rescue people from willful ignorance when all they are interested in doing is stagnating endlessly and lashing out at anyone who dares disturb their universe.
These are people, dear one, who cannot comprehend the fact that you and the sayyadina are possessed of Hearts. They cannot comprehend the fact that near-everyone is possessed of a Heart, and that theirs is not the only real one.
They are unkind because they are innocent, but they are innocent at an age when they should have long since learnt that others' Hearts are. That there is life and understanding, sorrow and joy, love and apathy and abhorrence outside their own experiences. That the world is not always the world as seen through their eyes.
As She said: it is not your responsibility to rescue people from themselves when their perils are of their own devising.
I know it makes your Heart heavy to know this. I know you loathe to lay down your key and turn from a battle, and say: "This is not my fight." You are loath to give up. And - if I were to criticise you for this stubborness I would be an old hypocrite, for I can just as mulish as you can. I only learnt this lesson through endless repetition.
I do not think you foolish or ignorant or pigheaded; if I did I would not choose to abide with you. I think you are someone with great compassion who wants to see people stop getting hurt because they've not yet opened their eyes and are still stumbling in the dark.
But you cannot open their eyes for them.
Lay down your key, girl; pick up a book, sit down on a blanket, take care of you, and let them fight their own battles. They've relied on you for far too long and shown too little compassion and gratitude for the friendship (gratitude for deeds is irrelevant here - what I am talking about is realizing that you are thankful for the friendship and acting accordingly) - qualities which you are by no means lacking. They have yet to understand, I think, that there are Hearts not their own. This is a child's lesson, and one they have been sheltered from, but all lessons will be learnt in time. She in Her wisdom and compassion makes sure of it.
Do for yourself and for those you love, and those who love you. People who cannot understand that other Hearts besides theirs exist are not worth your time. When they awaken, it will get better for them, but they must choose to do so.
Your only sin, dear one, was being in a way that they could not comprehend, because while they knew you as you were then, they cannot understand that you have become who you are now - you've become someone who can deal with Chaos's Scion, honestly, and if they are so angry that you have changed so, then they have utterly no right to assume the mantle of the educator, because a teacher is well aware that one day the student will graduate, and perhaps surpass them.
(People who cannot comprehend this: do not call yourselves teachers. You have no claim to that title, to that role.)
You are not a sinner; you are a vital changeable being just as they are. if they cannot understand that - I shall borrow from Braig and say 'sucks to them'. It is not your problem.
Do what you love. The rest will follow.
Shantih.
-Magister Thaeron of Hallowed Bastion
