An Accurate View Of Things

[Gabriel David Gomez]

Notice how some people often assume to see the worth of something. Here is a story from "Chuang Tzu - (Taoism)".

 

Chuang Tzu put on cotton clothes with patches in them, and arranging his girdle and tying on his shoes, (i.e. to keep them from falling off), went to see the prince of Wei.
"How miserable you look, Sir!" Cried the prince. "It is poverty, not misery", replied Chuang Tzu. "A man who has TAO cannot be miserable. Ragged clothes and old boots make poverty, not misery". 

 

Now, the same can be said of solitude and loneliness. Sometimes, people base their points of view on they would react to something rather than what it truly is. In fact, solitude isn't necessary for loneliness. Also, many things are desired only because someone would (even because of a wrong perspective of it) not mind being in the shoes of it; that and/or because it reminds them of themselves. Yet many things are judged as useless only because they are not desired. Many things are hated only because they are not desired. I think people should stop basing points of view on their emotional reaction to them and what things have to do with themselves (quite narcissistic) and regard things for what they are in actuality. Instead of classifying something as what it is associated with, to classify it based on its actual attributes. This allows poverty to be simply poverty and misery to be simply misery.