There is no place for sorrow, grief or guilt unless one chooses kindly to accomodate them. Don't be kind to those who do not deserve kindness. Weakness does not deserve kindness; be that weakness of any form, in any person. It feeds on sympathy. The more it is sympathized, the weakened becomes the possessor and more dependant on the weakness. Dependant for what? To achieve what? The possessor doesn't know. Because the possessor hasn't acknowledged the weakness. Once it is acknowledged, recognised, it should be mercilessly thrown out of the mind and subsequently the body, as one would throw a guest out of the house upon realising that the guest is actually a robber. Weakness robs us of our dignity, self-esteem, freedom, and in worse cases, our senses.
There is an obvious yet thin layer of difference between 'recognizing the weakness' and 'Mistaking something as a weakness'. Some types of Weaknesses, once recognised and acknowledged, become insecure, vulnerable and can soon be
overcome easily. While there exist weaknesses that can never come into existence unless recognised as one.
Let me elaborate with the example of appearance. Appearance of a person, that is, their posture, stature, body structure, length and breadth and shape are all consequences of their health and hygiene related habbits. It is merely a visible symptom of good health. People tend to forget or rather ignore the fact that appearance is the symptom and not the cause of good health. So if I acknowledge my physical weakness of not being properly healthy by examining my stamina and strength, I know I can overcome by improving them -the improvement which once achieved, will definitely give me a better appearance as an incidental consequence. However, if I focus substantially on my appearance to determine whether I am healthy or not, my goal will merely be to improve my appearance by any means possible, which even if achieved - may or may not improve my health. And thus, leaving the real weakness untouched,
undetected and growing strong.
Weakness, of any sort, deserves to be laughed at. It deserves to be ridiculed. All humor is ridicule of weakness. No one dares to laugh at perfection, unless perfection itself is tactfully projected as a weakness. Being ridiculed for being weak in terms of anything leaves us with two choices. Either to ignore the ridicule, or be affected. Being affected leaves us two choices - to cry and whine and blame someone or something for our weakness and do nothing else about it or to get up and improve. Humiliation and ridicule can prove to be the best motivators if accepted by their recipients the right way.
Then again, ridicule may not necessarily be outsourced. In the moments of self-realizations, when we laugh at our current or former methods, thought processes and say 'I have been so stupid all this time!' we are ridiculing our former selves. We are laughing at our weaknesses.
Never pity the weak or their weaknesses.
Humiliate their weakness. Insult their weakness. And thus Motivate them. But don't bully them. Leave and allow them the choice of either being motivated or breaking down. The strong will overcome the weak will perish. The weak deserve to be perished if they choose to remain weak. So do not feel pity or guilt. That is the law of nature. It does sound cruel, but it is just.
I usually prefer not to quote others in my writings. I usually prefer to use my own formulation and sequencing of words. But I think that to quote Friedrich Nietzsche's sister from her introduction to her brother's book 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' will be apt here as an end note :
"All that proceeds from power is good. All that springs from weakness is bad."
- ©Kaustubh Anil Pendharkar
There is an obvious yet thin layer of difference between 'recognizing the weakness' and 'Mistaking something as a weakness'. Some types of Weaknesses, once recognised and acknowledged, become insecure, vulnerable and can soon be
overcome easily. While there exist weaknesses that can never come into existence unless recognised as one.
Let me elaborate with the example of appearance. Appearance of a person, that is, their posture, stature, body structure, length and breadth and shape are all consequences of their health and hygiene related habbits. It is merely a visible symptom of good health. People tend to forget or rather ignore the fact that appearance is the symptom and not the cause of good health. So if I acknowledge my physical weakness of not being properly healthy by examining my stamina and strength, I know I can overcome by improving them -the improvement which once achieved, will definitely give me a better appearance as an incidental consequence. However, if I focus substantially on my appearance to determine whether I am healthy or not, my goal will merely be to improve my appearance by any means possible, which even if achieved - may or may not improve my health. And thus, leaving the real weakness untouched,
undetected and growing strong.
Weakness, of any sort, deserves to be laughed at. It deserves to be ridiculed. All humor is ridicule of weakness. No one dares to laugh at perfection, unless perfection itself is tactfully projected as a weakness. Being ridiculed for being weak in terms of anything leaves us with two choices. Either to ignore the ridicule, or be affected. Being affected leaves us two choices - to cry and whine and blame someone or something for our weakness and do nothing else about it or to get up and improve. Humiliation and ridicule can prove to be the best motivators if accepted by their recipients the right way.
Then again, ridicule may not necessarily be outsourced. In the moments of self-realizations, when we laugh at our current or former methods, thought processes and say 'I have been so stupid all this time!' we are ridiculing our former selves. We are laughing at our weaknesses.
Never pity the weak or their weaknesses.
Humiliate their weakness. Insult their weakness. And thus Motivate them. But don't bully them. Leave and allow them the choice of either being motivated or breaking down. The strong will overcome the weak will perish. The weak deserve to be perished if they choose to remain weak. So do not feel pity or guilt. That is the law of nature. It does sound cruel, but it is just.
I usually prefer not to quote others in my writings. I usually prefer to use my own formulation and sequencing of words. But I think that to quote Friedrich Nietzsche's sister from her introduction to her brother's book 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' will be apt here as an end note :
"All that proceeds from power is good. All that springs from weakness is bad."
- ©Kaustubh Anil Pendharkar
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