Thank you. I forward it back to you.
It is rare to taste one's own meal on another's tongue.
HaHa, so true! :)
There was a time in my life, I wanted to be holier than holy. I thought of myself as nice and good and doing no harm. While that "doing no harm" was true in the sense that I don't go out and want to kill or hurt another human being, I fell for utopian ideas and back referenced it to my way of life. Consuming less, abandoning car driving, no traveling by planes, eating less meat, you name it. While this in itself is not to be condemned, I gave others a sense of guilt or behaved as a "know it all" when they opted for another lifestyle.
I see through my failures and this urge in "wanting to be good". To my own defense, I started to dig deeply into those world saving ideas and finally came out of it with no solution whatsoever.
A former friend of mine told me in a very harsh way that I tend to babble. She was right in the sense that I used all nice expressions and was beating around the bush. That got me so furious that I finally expressed myself much more straightforward. While we killed our friendship in the course of this encounter, I feel, she did me a favor. Feeling genuine gratitude towards those who appear as the biggest aggressors or idiots remains yet an art to be practiced.
Do you have some in your mind with which you had similar experiences?