Weak or Meek?

We don’t become moral because we are weak but strong. To be moral requires the ability to be immoral. We can restrain ourselves when we are sure what the non-restrained self can do. It is not self-control if you defer from fighting because you are weak since that’s fear. Self-control is when we can fight the person but restrain ourselves from doing so.

Drugs are given in doses, restricted to amounts that are not harmful. Drugs, by default, are harmful: that’s why they set measures. Their power is cut back with their total capacity under restraint. Some are so dangerous that we put them in bottles that are difficult to access. Some we use despite their adverse effects as the benefits outweigh their risks.

A drug was once powerless, devoid of all the danger it threatens. Its production starts from simple ingredients, which are weak and plain. But it is made powerful in the lab and then restrained. Filled with the capacity to harm but yet controlled.

Humans go through a similar process. Initially so pure and weak, we grow to be strong. Our power sharpens with age; dangerous enough to be a threat, capable of triggering turbulence, and powerful enough to be a menace to society. The baby that was once weak becomes a powerful young man who knows no retreat.

A wise man once said, “He who has a sword and knows how to use them but keeps them sheathed will inherit the earth.” To be a sword master but to keep the thing that gives you the power of the other away by choice. Capable of being a threat, but to have voluntary restraint is power indeed.

To have no control of our powers leads us to great distractions. If we are weak, it leads us to assure ourselves that we are strong. In the pursuit of proving our strength, we cause great harm. The most powerless amongst us cause great hurt than the strongest. They are filled with a deep zeal to prove themselves valid and others wrong. To prove that they are strong even though they are weak.

Have you noticed; the people that cause violence are usually weak and depressed, packed with anger and resentment, which fuels the desire for further need to prove themselves? Lack of control over the anger within causes the manifestation of the anger upon the other. The powerful show their power by restraining the need to prove themselves potent, but the weak, engulfed by the need to deny their weakness, cause distraction for potency.

The crux of my message, evil is the man incapable of controlling the emotions within. The good man is the dangerous man that has the power of danger within control.

       Be all you can be.✌

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