🍁 TREE 259: How to be honourable
One.
Dennis is not a good dog, but he is an honourable dog.
Two.
I’ve been with my spouse for almost 15 years. In those years, I’ve never been with anyone but the mother of my son. But that’s not because I am an especially good and true person. In fact, I am wholly in possession of an unimaginably filthy and mongrel mind. But I am also a dude who believes in guard-rails, as a buddy of mine once put it. I don’t believe in getting ‘in the moment’ and then exercising will-power. I believe in avoiding ‘the moment’. I believe in being absolutely clear with myself about why I am having a second drink, and why I am not; why I am going to a party, and why I am not. I believe that the battle is lost at Happy Hour, not at the hotel. I am not a ‘good man’. But I am prepared to be an honourable one.
Three.
This is totally a bop. Don’t @ me.
We all know about the mouse of willpower.
Grow slowly
Jeff
Road blocks are necessary to remain honorable to ones self. I know my weaker desires that are trouble makers. I don’t feed them.
Good. Honourable. Good distinction. And guard rails, yes. Otherwise it's all just too painful. And there's enough of that in our world.