Odd thing, really. Someone posted a question on Yahoo answers "When everyone is taking a dump on your forehead for trying to have integrity, what do you do?"...
So I posted:
"With such a lack of detail, it is impossible, IMO, to answer your question.
Sometimes, though, it can be not so much integrity as willful ignorance and insensitivity, in my personal experience. I always look to myself first for the source of my problems, do a careful and brutal analysis. If I find something, I try to fix it. If I don't, I ask the dumping parties exactly what I did wrong, take that into account, and try to fix it. Take them very seriously.
Looking to yourself, first, for the source of your problems, is a key to not being a cosmic schmuk. This is a world which we all must share, and when we encounter adversity, we can either see it as a learning opportunity, or resist learning anything from it and continue smashing our heads into a wall.
Not saying you're a schmuk, everyone, in their own way, can be one at times... Only providing my two cents. Hope it is helpful.
In the case that the dumping parties are being schmuks, well, at that point you have to stand up for yourself and step on some toes... But one must carefully look at oneself first, if the offending party always blames other people for their own problems, then this is strong evidence that they may be a cosmic schmuk. If we all cooperate, we'll all come through this smoothly, and perhaps learn something totally awesome in the process.
Cultivate compassion and do good things, and that is what will come back to you."
Despite the fact that I have no idea what a cosmic schmuk is in the first place. Oh well, didn't somebody here say words mean whatever we want them to mean
? Noticed a parallel in the language of the question, and figured I'd just toss that in for the heck of it.
Anyway, enough of my own ignorant willfulness, time to save the world!... Or, do laundry, whatever the case may be.
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