Humility

A friend and I were talking about how some people just have a quality that makes you want to give them the best of the best, everything they want. They just have a nature that draws everyone towards them. After a lot of thought, we released what it was. There are people in this world that don't realise their own worth because they are always so busy just trying to be better. Humility. I suppose it's a kind of innocence.

And the best thing is, the attraction I speak of is not one that boosts my ego or makes me feel higher than them. Not at all. Rather, it humbles me. They make me want to emulate them. Gosh, I wish we were all like that.

Anyway, there are only a handful of people about whom I feel this way, and while it would be brilliant for them to know how much of an example they are to me, I feel like it might ruin that innocence I mentioned.

The Circle

So...I was thinking this week about whether bad actions make bad people, and the conclusion was easy enough- no. We've all done bad things but we're not deemed bad people, nor do others deem us bad people. So what makes bad people? It was the intermediary stages between actions and character that confused me. 


Et voila...I stumbled across a book today that explained the matter perfectly. Every virtue is like the centre of a circle, and every vice is a deviation from that centre. Essentially, for every virtue, there is an infinite number of vices- there is only one centre, but an infinite number of points other than the centre of the circle. The further you are from the centre, the worse.


And I suppose "bad people" lie at, or beyond, the circumferences of these circles.