If you have the opportunity of being an example for others by being respectful to other ways of interpreting reality, and at the same time, being able to recognize the problems your own paradigms may be causing while interpreting the same reality, You will have discovered why some men who are, apparently, more happy are just showing you the way they learned to face life. I am tired, You have no idea, how tired I am. At the same time, I will swallow my agony to express how much I learned in this lesson, my perspective and take my advantage, because being a student at BYU, it is an advantage, and I would probably like something easier, something less sacrificing, I was born in a country, where education is considered important but it has been poorly supported. While trying to express my understanding and the way this lesson helped me, I think on the way the gospel of Jesus Christ has build paradigms in me. I did not understand before how simple ideas can shape the world forever, My world.
What is the best way to get answers or ideas that can be heard and they can also be followed, As long as they help in guiding to great experience. We are, by mistake and short sided, misguided to misunderstand the way others behave. We may think that arriving late to a meeting is wrong. Well, actually it is. But it is wrong enough to break a relationship apart?. What is late after all? In my opinion. In a classroom, lateness is easily understood. First, it interrupts dramatically when the teacher is in the middle of an explanation and someone appears at the door. The learning process is interrupted, more than the teaching process and there is always the option of showing the facts as they are. Sometimes "Time" and "Schedule" matter. "We are the future?" or "We are the present?" That is important, depending on what culture and what reality you are living in. In some countries, The question may not even make sense.
Sometimes we fail in understanding and we fail in helping others to understand our perspectives. Are they really that important?. Why do we get easily mad? Why do we have to put ourselves in a position where everything that it is around us is so important that it makes look others behavior bad?
Who are we performing for, if that is the case, does that audience wants us to "perform" or wants us to be "original"?
What is right for certain group of people may not be right for others. How important then it is to express sympathy for others who think and enjoy life in a different way? Well , that it is important. in the end, to discover. Like in the videos, and like in real life. We do not know all the facts, We tear things down, by trying to be understood, instead of trying to understand others. This lesson and this topic, it is making me think that I have never been wrong. Living in the jungle, where you work six months and relax the other six, it has not been wrong, It was life, the things you worked for, produced their fruit, and then, you had to enjoy what you worked for. Nature and life was showing you the right way. Living in "Civilization" is harder, it is never enough and the owners of all the can food and artificial life are increasing their prices every year that it makes really hard to keep up with the Johns.
After watching the videos and listening to the BYU teacher explain how, some behaviors are not offensive, but just another way to understand reality, it makes me think about how life in the capital, how work, studies and things have really taken me away from what the purpose of life is.
How do you react when a student try to kiss you good bye? When some of them to thank you, they bring you something to eat or invite you to eat out, and suddenly, you give yourself to much credit that you think they are trying to bribe you. They may be late, they may seem rude or too soft. They may talk a lot and not getting anything. They may be talking all the time and you may think they are not learning at all. Let's learn from others and their habits, There must be a word of wisdom in the acts, words and others habits. Because, We may still need to understand that beside all the previously mention, silence is also saying something. It is important then to be well informed of the habits, traditions, and others culture, to know how to understand and see. how close we are to the general and whole true. Or at least, develop an interest of what there is behind all that.
Marco Diaz.
I appreciate your thoughts here. You've dived into this subject with some interesting insight. I think you really got to the root of understanding culture "But is it wrong enough to break a relationship apart?"
ReplyDelete"God gives us difficulties to bring out the best in us." Marvin J. Ashton