Yes, I'm still thinking about what I posted yesterday. I couldn't help but wonder ..."If someone were to 'leaf' through my blog, ending with yesterday's installment, how would it sit in the context of other posts - the ones about acquiring new geek gear, et al?"
I was briefly tempted to go back and Watergate all the incriminating stuff, but realised deleting would not be a true solution.
When all is said and done, I suppose each of us are all in progress. Hopefully each able to muster up the courage to act on any one in a series of convictions along our path.
I hope that I was fairly transparent in yesterday's post - heck, I enjoy the stuff too - as much (and sometimes more than) the next person. But that's not really the point, is it? Nor is it the point that someone else in line spent more than I did. Someone else's participation - whether intentional or not - does not absolve me from the responsibility of my own action.
In other conversations I have heard people use the argument "Look whose talking! (S)He's no better. Look at what (s)he has done! Look at his/her life!" As if another person's guilt absolves us of our own. No, it just makes the problem twice as bad. Guilt of the other does not absolve self, it just provides a guilty companion.
Peace
