In Your Shoes

With others or against others, but among others...

Ethics main interest has to do with: how to live a good human life ... a good life among humans. We're unique, irrepetible, very different from the rest, with different cultures, languages, likes, customs, etc. but....

WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS!

Friendship and respect are the most beautiful feeling among people.

Even the worst person (is still a human being) can learn to transform himself into a better person, or behave in a different way (better for all of us - humans).

If we sow love and caring, we're going to get love in return. Bad people lack of caring and love. If it's true that we learn by experinece and imitation, then bad people need to experience love before they can love somebody else. Love is paramount in any relation (at least some regard).

WE NEED TO BE TREATED AS HUMAN BEINGS!
(and treat the rest as well)

To be able to treat others as human beings, we need to see from their point of view, we need to be in their shoes, we need to understand them deeply... And from my viewpoint, there is no better way to know the others as getting to know you very well. In that ... we're all humans! To conclude, I think we are again refering to: don't do others what you don't like to be done to you.

Todos los humanos estamos hechos de la sustancia con la que se trenzan los suelos.

Shakespeare

The duty in my life

(Well this chapter was a bit too long for me. In fact I think Savater is retelling some of his previous topics. I will try to avoid repetition by focusing on what I found more interesting and 'new')

The Three Sillies and some more...
For the first silie everything it's ok. The second one wants everything (be in mass and ring the bell at the same time; want to be the winner and the looser at the same time). The third one is the one who doesn't know anything so he is for or against the situations without (personal) reasons.The fourth silly knows what s/he wants but without the necessary strenght. Last but not least, the one who knows what s/he wants fiercely but somehow always misslead the goal. To avoid idiocity: Learn as much as you can!

La imbecilidad acecha y no perdona!
Unlukily, this is true, there are many sillies around...

Just the opposite of being sillie: Having a conscience
1- Desire to live humanly well.
2- Do what we really want to do.
3- Try to do what is good, and like what is good.
4- Be responsable for our facts = Bare in mind that each action will affect the self.


Summing up, from my point of view this has to do with live as well as you can, don't bother your pairs, and do it well!

And avoid using sticks, or excuses to live...

TIME FOR BARDIC TRADITION

I finished this chapter on Savater's book, but I didn't find new things, at least not many (you always learn something anyway). But it rang me some bells, that is why I want to share with you these stories and quotes...

Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6, 19-21

He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop, so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ will be demanded back from But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

Luke 12, 16-21

VIAJE AL CAMPO

Una vez, un padre de familia bastante acaudalado llevo a su hijo a un viaje con el firme proposito de que su hijo viera como vivian y cuan pobre era la gente del campo. Estuvieron por el espacio de un dia y una noche completa en la granja de una familia muy humilde. Al concluir el viaje y de regreso a casa el padre le pregunta a su hijo:

- ¿Qué te pareció el viaje?
- ¡Muy bonito papá!
- ¿Viste cuan pobre puede ser la gente?
- Si
- ¿Y que aprendiste?
- Vi que nosotros tenemos una piscina que llega de pared a pared a la mitad del jardín, en cambio ellos tienen un riachuelo que no tiene fin. Nosotros tenemos unas lámparas importadas en el patio, ellos tienen estrellas. Nuestro patio llega hasta la pared del vecino, el de ellos termina en el horizonte. Ellos tienen tiempo para conversar y estar en familia. Tú y mamá tienen que trabajar todo el tiempo y casi nunca los veo.

Al terminar el relato, el padre se quedo mudo y el hijo agregó:

- ¡Gracias papá por enseñarme lo ricos que podemos llegar a ser!