February 11: Common qualities of humans despite culture and beliefs
March 16, 2008 by chantellesthoughts
The human race of today hold many qualities and ideals that they each have for themselves. Each persons qualities are different from the next person. Common qualities that are found in people are things such as; organized, polite, generous, truthful, helful, etc. An ideal is a conception of something in its absolute perfection. Many people want certain things in their life, to be perfect. It can be such a little thing as graduation, or school grade, even your marriage. But all of your ideals can be changed by just a simple qualitity one carries. I think in many cases that some ideals we all strive to have. I am sure in some point in our lives we wanted to perfect our grades, or have our class graduation perfect, or even have our body perfect! For me I have wanted a perfect body for the longest time!
As William Shakespeare once said: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have grateness thrust upon them”. I think this quote is the basis of ones life. Not everyone is the same, and we all can’t do the same things to the same quality. We each have our own paths to live, so we can’t live a path that is impossible for us to fulfill.
Our actions can cause our ideals to diminish. For example, I want to have the perfect body. No flaws, no excess weight, etc. However, that ideal diminished awhile ago, because of my actions. For me to not have excess weight, I would have to cut out the excess food. I haven’t done that, cut back on it yes, but not gotten rid of it 100%. Also I would have to excercise regularly, but I don’t so this also plays a factor in loosing the ideal. This ideal is reachable, but in order for me to grasp onto it, I have to control my actions until I am close enough to grab hold of my ideal again.
There are many ideals I have, some still in my grasp, but others slowing falling away. I have to change my actions in order to grab hold again, before my ideal has left my life for good! This goes for anyone who is loosing their ideal due to their actions. Your ideal, depending what it is, can play a role in your qualities, whether they are good or bad. For example, in the song Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley, the man and women want their life to perfect with each other, yet they turn to alcohol and it all goes downhill from their. Yes this is a weird example, but how many people out their that turn to alcohol and their lives become the total opposite of what they wanted it to be. Is really how they want to live their life, if they could die because of too much alcohol, drugs, etc? This action alone can change a persons life so FAST!
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Chantelle,
I am once again commenting on your blogs. Maybe just because this is the fastest way to get through all these comments! haha. Anyways I really enjoyed reading this blog, particularly because as I was answering this question in my blog, I had a different view on the question. Your view and your answer was correct in my mind and it was interesting to see someone else’s point of view on this.
Chantel.