Have a Snickers?

Have a snickers?

You are an honorable person that respects the people around you, merciful but with a bad temper? Sometimes getting so angry that your voice starts to tremble from fury? Terribly courageous and won't stand injustice? Yet you know that is illegal to choke the life out of someone? Congrats you were born in the wrong century...

I respect the Japanese people and their culture. In fact I respect anyone that lives by a code of honor. If there is something like reincarnation I must have been a general or that is what I'd like to believe at least.

Expecting a lot from yourself sometimes leads to expecting the same thing from others. This and expecting to be treated as you treat others is a straight road leading to disappointment.

People do make mistakes. I sure have my share, but I try to learn from them. Should that not be the normal way? Make a mistake, learn from it and don't do it again. My greatest mistakes came from trusting some wrong people. I don't usually repeat my mistakes, but as I have learned I have a soft side that keeps telling me that people can change and can be better. Trying to shut that voice seems to not be working. Add to that equation some emotional involvement and here you have a drastic loss in objectivity. I am proud to say that I have a fair attitude towards the people around me, but I can also admit that I might not be always objective in my judgement.

Ask, investigate and then construct your opinion! This is my way of doing things. Learning as much as you can about a situation and from various sources is the only way to reach a conclusion that is closer to the truth. Sometimes the final picture that you are left with might not be of your liking, but turning your back on it because of that is not a good idea. They say that forgiveness is the attribute of the strong, but dear friends is it really a safe thing to do?

Forgiveness can be given even when the other person did not ask for it they say. My opinion is that this might not come from our strong characters, but from our own selfishness and fear of action. We lack the power to face the person that was wrong so we lie to ourselves that we are the better person. I believe that this is wrong, hypocritical and that is just another side of our own cowardliness.

So dear friends when faced with a wrong doing if you don't stand for your principles, if you lie to yourself that you need be the better person, and that you need to back off from a useless argument, remember that you only managed to just postpone it. I am not encouraging you to go crazy and start fights, I am only advising you to stand behind your principles, your way of life and thinking, and be courageous. Accept apology from the ones that ask for it, give forgiveness to the ones that deserve and confront the ones that show that they have not learned the lesson of respect and honor. Those that show no signs of remorse or a will to listen even after this don't deserve to be in your presence so make sure you don't waste any more of your efforts and show them the door out of your life (don't choke that person it is illegal!!).

Be fair, treat people and yourself with respect, live honorably, don't run away from problems and make sure you don't get fooled by a Snickers :)).

My answer to the question from the title is: No, thanks!