Empire of Consequences

If you look at a bunch of virtue sets, the opposed virtues in each set tend to fall into two main types.

I wonder if there’s a connection to a different line of thought I’ve been having.

In so many things, I have noticed, there is some way of being carefree, passionate, vital, powerful, in the moment, free. But those ways aren’t practical.  They can go wrong pretty badly.

So you have the carefree virtues and the care-taking virtues.

What this feels like from the inside is something beautiful and passionate and strong that keeps getting killed by problems, pain, fears, and worries.

The only way out is to face it. The free passionate thing can no longer be the whisp that flits through the cracks of gray reality.

It must become the master of the realities and the practicalities.

Do not flee. Make your empire of consequences.