Children are very straightforward. They are almost binary. They don’t have an issue in saying ‘No’. They may have a toy they cherish and they won’t let another child use it. They don’t worry about things like ‘what will that kid feel if I say No’ or ‘if I say No and I go to their home and they also say No when I want to play with their toy’ etc.
In this writeup, the following that is stated is quite profound and put beautifully as well:
- True love is unconditional.
- Unless you love yourself, you cannot love others.
- Most of us are unnecessarily hard on ourselves.
- When you cannot let yourself go or when you cannot accept your flaws, how will you accept others' flaws?
I cannot agree more!
However, the other aspects outlined in this write-up are not really related to 'trust' or 'love'. For instance, the following is quoted:
- When a person says "It’s incredible" at the painting you show them, you immediately ask ‘really’ to confirm it. We cannot go by mere words. That ‘incredible’ can have 50 shades
Why is this complex and not a simple straightforward binary Yes/No? It is because the subject matter is such! A painting has a lot of characteristics. It may not be out of place to quote from the English artist William Blake, who lived from 1757 until 1827: "He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General Good is the plea of the hypocrite and flatter; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars". A great painting has so many 'particulars' that it is beyond a simple Yes/No.
When you say 'Adults mostly go by data', you are cynical about it since you are referring to the 'trust' meter running in their heads all the time. However, let us not worry about the pretentious adults, since you cannot do anything about them. Let us worry about honest adults, and ask them 'what are the characteristics and particulars that constitute your answer'. You will get the 50 shades of grey - and there is value in it since it reflects their understanding!
I really liked this article. Very nicely put! However, I have some critical observations/comments that I want to share with you, which I will post later here. Meanwhile, I wanted to write about the poem (by the same title) by William Wordsworth that you have listed in the end.
I am very fond of his poems. He is a great nature poet, and one of the best English romantic poets. But, when it comes to using the words religion, piety, bliss - he uses it very loosely; in my personal opinion, he lacks depth in these matters and sounds somewhat hollow. Also, see the critical analysis of William Wordsworth's work and his poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose details I have enclosed below:
Work: "Biography Literaria", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The relevant extract of the criticism: "... Fifth and last; thoughts and images too great for the subject. This is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal: for, as in the latter there is a disproportion of the expressions to the thoughts so in this there is a disproportion of thought to the circumstance and occasion. ...
It is a well-known fact, that bright colours in motion both make and leave the strongest impressions ..., may become the link of association in recalling the feelings and images that had accompanied the original impression. But if we describe this in such lines, as
"They flash upon that inward eye,
Which is the bliss of solitude!" (from the poem "Daffodils")
in what words shall we describe the joy of retrospection, when the images and virtuous actions of a whole well-spent life, pass before that conscience which is indeed the inward eye: which is indeed "the bliss of solitude?" Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly ... from this couplet to—
"And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils." (from the poem "Daffodils")
As an aside, William Wordsworth in his later became a very 'practical' man, and a man of the world, and gave a cold shoulder to an eager young romantic poet John Keats who came and showed him some of his most imaginative poems hoping for encouragement, appreciation, and maybe some recognition.
In this writeup, the following that is stated is quite profound and put beautifully as well:
- True love is unconditional.
- Unless you love yourself, you cannot love others.
- Most of us are unnecessarily hard on ourselves.
- When you cannot let yourself go or when you cannot accept your flaws, how will you accept others' flaws?
I cannot agree more!
However, the other aspects outlined in this write-up are not really related to 'trust' or 'love'. For instance, the following is quoted:
- When a person says "It’s incredible" at the painting you show them, you immediately ask ‘really’ to confirm it. We cannot go by mere words. That ‘incredible’ can have 50 shades
Why is this complex and not a simple straightforward binary Yes/No? It is because the subject matter is such! A painting has a lot of characteristics. It may not be out of place to quote from the English artist William Blake, who lived from 1757 until 1827: "He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General Good is the plea of the hypocrite and flatter; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars". A great painting has so many 'particulars' that it is beyond a simple Yes/No.
When you say 'Adults mostly go by data', you are cynical about it since you are referring to the 'trust' meter running in their heads all the time. However, let us not worry about the pretentious adults, since you cannot do anything about them. Let us worry about honest adults, and ask them 'what are the characteristics and particulars that constitute your answer'. You will get the 50 shades of grey - and there is value in it since it reflects their understanding!
I really liked this article. Very nicely put! However, I have some critical observations/comments that I want to share with you, which I will post later here. Meanwhile, I wanted to write about the poem (by the same title) by William Wordsworth that you have listed in the end.
I am very fond of his poems. He is a great nature poet, and one of the best English romantic poets. But, when it comes to using the words religion, piety, bliss - he uses it very loosely; in my personal opinion, he lacks depth in these matters and sounds somewhat hollow. Also, see the critical analysis of William Wordsworth's work and his poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose details I have enclosed below:
Work: "Biography Literaria", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6081/6081-h/6081-h.htm
Critical essay: entire Chapter XXII
The relevant extract of the criticism: "... Fifth and last; thoughts and images too great for the subject. This is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal: for, as in the latter there is a disproportion of the expressions to the thoughts so in this there is a disproportion of thought to the circumstance and occasion. ...
It is a well-known fact, that bright colours in motion both make and leave the strongest impressions ..., may become the link of association in recalling the feelings and images that had accompanied the original impression. But if we describe this in such lines, as
"They flash upon that inward eye,
Which is the bliss of solitude!" (from the poem "Daffodils")
in what words shall we describe the joy of retrospection, when the images and virtuous actions of a whole well-spent life, pass before that conscience which is indeed the inward eye: which is indeed "the bliss of solitude?" Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly ... from this couplet to—
"And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils." (from the poem "Daffodils")
As an aside, William Wordsworth in his later became a very 'practical' man, and a man of the world, and gave a cold shoulder to an eager young romantic poet John Keats who came and showed him some of his most imaginative poems hoping for encouragement, appreciation, and maybe some recognition.
Deep thoughts, Thallu! Nicely written!