Sum of my actions…
March 1st, 2008 by Luke
You want a reason for how morality exists outside of the standard tradition and ideas of religion? Because what goes around comes around. I don’t mean Karma. I don’t mean that what you do negatively to the universe is going to have to balance itself out. I mean that when you treat people a certain way, it eventually comes back around to you. Sometimes you ruin inroads you could have had. Sometimes you fully traumatize a situation so irreparably that you can’t go back.
I had someone find my blog when they searched for “You can’t step in the same stream Twice.” That phrase wasn’t actually anywhere in the blog entry that they ended up reading, though, which made me laugh a little. Anyway, that phrase is a philosophical thought first posed by a classical philosopher named Hericlitus: it refers to the idea that the water is moving and so even though you may step in the stream bed, you can’t step in the stream itself again.
That makes me wonder about stepping into old relationships. Allow me to give you a hypothetical example:
Hypothetically, I’m in love with a girl and have been for a long time. Hypothetically, this is someone that I already destroyed an even longer time ago. Hypothetically, I know I’m in love because I over-analyze everything and came to realize that she was a litmus test I’d been using against other girls. Hypothetically, she’s been to hell and back in relationships since then. Hypothetically, sometimes I’m very worried that given a second chance, this whole thing would blow up in my face this time.
Hypothetical enough? Good. My point being I can step into that relationship again, but the girl that was in love with me so long ago may have already moved down the river. Maybe she just doesn’t know it.
