The Inner Samurai

The Samurai



We were taught from young to do the right thing.

Yet, it's the hardest thing to do.

You can be punished because

the status quo is sometimes affected when you do the right thing.

People love status quo.

It makes them feel invincible.

Yet,

the most dramatic change in society have always been brought about by

those who believed that what they stand for is much bigger than

what they may lose by doing the right thing.

Courage is not the absence of fear,

but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.

I could not imagine what it must have been like to take on an

entrenched British system.

Yet Mahatma Gandhi did

in his peaceful, persistent, courageous way.

He just wanted to right a wrong.

He simply wanted the world to know that the time for which

the wrong has been perpetuated does not make it right.

It may have been gone on for a long time

but definitely not a reason to continue to perpetuate a wrong.

Life throws so many unexpected, undesirable curves at us.

The curves are platforms for doing the right thing.

Stop your inhibition and

unleash the samurai in you.
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"I know sometimes it hurts more to hope, and it hurt more to care. But you have to promise me you won't stop caring." -Katara

2 balls, a meat stick and a big fat ego

2 balls, a meat stick and a big fat ego



Another way that chauvism harms men is

by denying them the ability to develop their critical thinking.

This is due in part to the constant,

regular reinforcement that men is ALWAYS right.

Men are usually raised in an environment in which

they are regularly assured of their superiority.

And they often live in segregation,

thus denying them the opportunity to be exposed to other viewpoints.

What happens in a culture of EGO supremacy?

Men assume that they are the experts.

Even in the absence of any history or knowledge.

The most blatant example of this is when

a man is pontificating about a subject and

is challenged when a person of another gender expresses an opinion.

The man will assume that she knows nothing about the subject and

will strive to “correct” her.

Sexism is an invasive poison.

It seeps in despite vigilance.

I wonder what men are thinking when

they choose not to do the right thing.

Can men ignore their chauvinistic lead-thicked ego

that they recognize with no ill effect?

I may have a "tweety bird" (adorably lethal..haha)

but don't look at me.

I was naive to believe equal rights still exist.

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Sokka: I'm sorry. I treated you like a girl when I should have treated you like a warrior.

Suki: [kisses Sokka on the cheek] I am a warrior, but I'm a girl, too.

=)