Sometimes, my posts are based on the title. The title comes up, and then a post may flow from that. That is pretty rare. Most of the time, there is a concept in place, and it gets fleshed out. This is not one of those times.

I haven’t written in a while, but it wasn’t for want of a thought. I didn’t have any inclination to write. I logged on today to write some little ditty about not posting, but something else popped into mind. Now for the fun part of seeing what develops.

I was having 1.5 way dialogue earlier. It just included myself, and I’m not able to call it a 2 way dialogue because of that. I was talking through what I would like to say to someone who took a point of view that if you disagreed, then it was a personal attack on their person or family. I don’t know of anyone like that, but I, and a lot of others, take that point of view at times.

I like talking through situations with myself. I don’t have to explain the situation to an outsider and I can control all the vocal variables. But that isn’t the point.

Why do we, or to be specific, why do I, take things so personally? If someone wants a different kind of cake than I planned, why is it such a big deal? All I have to do is open a different box. I realize there are more complex issues than cake, but most of them are not as important as we want them to be.

That’s why our morals need to based on an outside rule set, in this case, God’s rules. If things were based on what I thought, then morals could and would fluctuate. God alone is unwavering; we all have a bit of wishy-washy-ness.