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Today's
Meditation:
I'm concerned with virtue because I know that it's an
important element of living my life fully and
positively. Virtue may be a rather abstract concept,
and it may be relative, but it definitely is important for
me to consider what I truly believe to be virtuous and to
do my best to live my life according to the constructs of
virtue.
If I'm to be virtuous, I have to be so all the time.
There's no picking and choosing times and places to be
virtuous and times and places not to be so. That
doesn't mean that I have to fix every problem I encounter
or take care of other people's problems for them--but it
does mean that I certainly won't be adding to the problems
through my own greed or lack of consideration or
courtesy. If I'm virtuous, people will know that
they can trust me, and they'll know that I'm there when
and if they need me.
My virtue is my choice, and it's something that definitely
extends outward, or it doesn't exist. My virtue
helps the world by contributing to peace, safety, hope,
love, compassion, and many, many more things. It
isn't about making my life better for me, but if I live
virtuously, I know that my life will be better as a sort
of side effect of the behaviors I choose to share with the
world.
As Joseph says below, we may be tempted to think that
we're virtuous because we didn't do any harm today, but
the important question to ask ourselves is whether we did
any good today. If we haven't, we can't really
consider ourselves virtuous--virtue requires an effort to
do something good on our part, and it's an important part
of any life lived fully.
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