How One Should Grow

Posted by on Jun 28, 2010 in Blog | 2 comments

I just want to say hello and ask what do you think about growing and how one should grow, as a person, as a son/daughter, a father/mother, as a student, as an intellect?

- Adrian Ramirez, via Private Message

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I’ll begin by quoting Abraham Lincoln: “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
I don’t know as to what he was referring to but I took my own figurative interpretation from it. We grow on the individual and personal basis. As harsh as this may sound, we live in a selfish world. Nobody wants to admit it because it sounds so displeasing to the ears, let alone the soul. You might tell your boss that your uncle died and he’ll say “Okay, Adrian, take a couple days off.” But inside, do you really think he gives a hoot? I’d say not.

The world is fake. How many of your associates can you call a true friend?  I understand nobody is perfect but that’s why you have to draw your boundaries. With family, you may be open. But once you exceed the blood connections, you are guaranteed an eventual downfall in your relation.

Each of the bonds you’ve mentioned (mother/father, son/daughter, etc) are each at a lengthy discussion. However, how do we grow as an intellect?

What I mentioned above was very pessimistic but it was also reality. However, we don’t live our daily life with that mindset. It’s just something you have to remember and revive from time to time. Otherwise, you live life generously and selflessly. You will never attain contentment without generosity and altruism.

We grow by keeping ourselves busy and living life one day at a time. You have to have a goal and aim in life, though. Living life one day at a time means you don’t stress yourself out by dwelling on the “What-Ifs” of life. Rather, you focus on the present. Work with what you have and make the most of it.

There’s just so much to say on this topic. Especially in the past few days when I’ve been feeling not so bright, I gave myself time to ponder of this issue myself. This is just a very brief summary of my thoughts and feelings. Feel free to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to it!

2 Comments

  1. Umer Toor | June 29, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    The subtraction-addition on its way: Perhaps you’re looking for an authentic world, utopia which a flamboyant liberated lady of Paris was seeking in 19-20th century (d. 1953) (please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxUBlfz14k&feature=related part 1-4 on her life story). Then she found Orient, Morocco, where she witnessed the authenticity of sexuality, of integration of different fragments of human being, of Tradition and Presences, of connection of heaven and earth, to quote AH Murad. She found Islamic Tradition as a solution to the crisis of Christianity’s war on flesh, industrial hegemony which turned people into slaves, as she wrote in her magazine in Egypt announcing to her brothers and sisters in Egypt of the failure of modern West.

    So she started to take part in the politics of Egypt’s national movement, but soon withdraws. Doesn’t even take part in some grave Palestinian crisis that took place at that time. Because she saw the crisis of Muslims as a consequence of the collapse of Traditional Islamic authenticity in the spheres of politics and social theory and practice. At her age near death, she lived a poor life selling most of what she owned, and studied theology. She rests in a grave near Imam Shafi’s in Egypt. May Allah bless her soul with peace and forgive her.

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